This article feels a bit overly optimistic, but at the same time I am sympathetic with the core argument, which is that higher education is to be found increasingly outside academic institutions. Professors and academics are taking to the open internet, writes Annalee Newitz, in response to things like funding cuts and limitations in what they can say in class. To quote Karen Attiah, "This is not the time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism and fear." This article describes people like Attiah and Abigail Thorn who runs Philosophy Tube. "When the public can't gain access to higher education, Hall suggested, then higher education should come to the public. And that is exactly what educators are doing now." Well, some of them are. A few. Probably not enough. (If you hit New Scientist's 'article limit', try here).
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