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(Some) Universities are trying to unlock the online education model. Many fail. Global Campus is the most recent. The problem in this instance is not with the online environment, but with the model of implementation. Faculty – who as I understand it are often required in formal education – were marginalized as the university sought to duplicate for-profit models. Universities serve a different role in society than the one served by private industry. University leaders need to come to some understanding of this distinction. What is the value formal higher education plays in society? Play to that need. Stop trying to be a second rate University of Phoenix or Capella or Walden. Unfortunately, I suspect the failure of Global Campus will provide naysayers with an example of why online education doesn’t. The real lesson here is one of implementation failure.