Stay at Home for Higher Education?
Recent studies predict the end of traditional classroom education..!
MY Take... Personally, I get Goosebumps when I hear the term disruptive technology as I have been fortunate having spent much of my career working for a company who developed and sold disruptive technology. D.T. can be thought of as a vastly better mousetrap! If you own or sell the better trap, opportunities abound! If you are competing against it, be sure that your personal skill sets are highly developed!
In September, the Washington Monthly author Kevin Carey wrote “the day is coming—sooner than many people think—when a great deal of money is going to abruptly melt out of the higher education system, just as it has in scores of other industries that traffic in information that is now far cheaper and more easily accessible than it has ever been before. Much of that money will end up in the pockets of students in the form of lower prices, a boon and a necessity in a time when higher education is the key to prosperity.” Similarly predictive statements have been made by World magazine’s Marvin Olasky, Harvard business school professor Clayton Christensen, and entrepreneur Michael Horn who liken the quality, price and availability of on line education to a disruptive technology.
The US Department of Education recently published a study that concluded “students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face to face instruction.” http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/opepd/ppss/reports.html#edtech
Paul Tasca - http://www.paultasca.com - Author of “Drumming Up Your Career”
