>The institutions that can afford to attract the experts themselves should continue to do so, as Minerva is doing and the Ivy Leagues will continue to do. Those that can’t attract experts (the inherent majority) should start more heavily leveraging third-party curricula rather than producing second-tier courses designed internally.<p>Agreed, but not at the expense of specialization. Core curriculum access across regions could be powerful, but also limiting. A good example of this is graduate school applications: many graduate programs will hesitate to offer admission to students who have attended the same university for their undergraduate work, the assumption being that students should acquire a diverse set of perspectives to create their own ideas.