Will technology kill the academic semester?

When I was in my first few years of school, I took a bunch of self-paced coursework, and suddenly I was two grades ahead. Then we moved, and the new school system wouldn’t allow me to be in a class of kids older than I was, so back I went for a couple years of redoing the same material I had just done. What a waste of time. Let’s just say that I’m personally sympathetic, therefore, to the new combination of “self-paced” coursework with “social learning networks.” Any possibilities for us to consider some of these ideas here at JBU?

http://chronicle.com/article/Will-Technology-Kill-the/124857/