And Steven Mintz's "Six Transformational Ideas for the New Year" in Inside Higher Education certainly do.

Academic innovation is not simply about placing lectures online; Mintz's ideas question conventional practice. For example, he addresses issues of scale and proposes breaking up classes, alternative start dates and a coach to support students in order to deal with large classes. Further, he says sophisticated courseware is "a textbook on steroids" that should be "immersive, adaptive, and highly interactive... contain[ing] sophisticated diagnostics and embed[ding] remediation and enrichment".

Controversial? Or is this predicting the future?