Thought experiment about disintermediating education

There will be a post here, probably tomorrow, about the process underway that is disintermediating education from schools back to people.  The combination of online courses offered from excellent schools:

http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-to-the-World-From/134068/

along with the atomization of particular lessons via Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/

has the potential to disrupt the education marketplace, as foretold by Clayton Christensen in

Disrupting Class

More to follow tonight, and it may end up being in three parts over the next few nights.  I'm not sure.