Something You Already Know Bill Wohnoutka Vice President, Solutions Architecture

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4  Level 3 Communications, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 4 Drivers of Disruption  Reach and Scale  Cost Improvement  Market Adoption Consumption is Constant Structure of Education will be disrupted Metaverse

5  Level 3 Communications, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 5 What does the future of University Systems look like? For the Fall 2009 admission cycle, four- year colleges and universities received an average of 80 percent of their applications online, up from 72 percent in Fall 2008, 68 percent in Fall 2007 and 58 percent in Fall “ ” State of College Admission report

6  Level 3 Communications, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 6 What does the future of University Systems look like? “ ” Moments before the start of class, I could place a video into students’ dropboxes, and the majority of them would arrive having already watched it and able to discuss it. Those sorts of things made the class more interesting and dynamic and could never have happened in the past. -Professor Corey Angst, University of Notre Dame, talking about his eReader course “Using an iPad as a Textbook,” The Wall Street Journal, January 22, 2010

7  Level 3 Communications, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 7 What does the future of University Systems look like? By 2015, 25 million post-secondary students in the United States will be taking classes online. And as that happens, the number of students who take classes exclusively on physical campuses will plummet, from 14.4 million in 2010 to just 4.1 million five years later. -Ambient Insight Forecast “ ”

8  Level 3 Communications, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 8 The Edge  On-campus experience driven off- campus  Entertainment  Communications  Administrative Services  E-curriculum  Ubiquitous broadband everywhere  Fast  Wireless  Unrestricted  Free  The tension will be at the edge…

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