Future role for higher education?

I continue to think about the shifting value point of institutions of higher education in a digital participatory culture… and am trying to decipher what our core competency is when content is ubiquitous, open and free, students are networked globally, and old accreditation models may crack under the pressure of mass public comment.

George Siemens has a better (and more concise) answer than most: http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/archives/003485.html