http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/online-education-is-everywhere-whats-the-next-big-thing/32898?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
This "Western Governor's" model is so much in the air right now, but I don't yet see it affecting numbers at most of our educational instutions, at least not with the people I engage with. 20 years from now, however? Who knows.
Here's another summary version of some of these "wave of the future" essays.
http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2011/11/on-the-nature-of-change-in-higher-ed-part-ii-education-and-the-new-economy/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en