Coursera, EdX, Kahn Academy, Saylor.org, OpenCourseWare. All are infinitely scalable, infinitely deployable, and infinitely cheaper alternatives to the bricks-and-mortar learning experience. How, where and who consumes a heretofore inelastic product - education - is being reshaped, unwrung, and disruptively transformed in ways not seen since the invention of the printing press. Today's world needs a highly educated, adaptable, technical workforce, capable of being retrained and redeployed from less productive to more productive industries. The prohibitively expensive (and slow!) 4-year residential education model is no longer suited to the modern, global economy. Thus it is this blogger's belief that we are about to witness the beginning of a Cat 5 university endgame: the emerging on-line learning colossus spawns a legitimate credentialing industry leading to collapsing tuition revenue from decreased enrollment, leading ultimately to many under-capitalized colleges and uni...