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It feels that education is next in line for disruption, right after print media. "College product" is overpriced and is largely sustained by "parent pressure".
by yurylifshits 16y ago
It feels that education is next in line for disruption, right after print media.
"College product" is overpriced and is largely sustained by "parent pressure". Parents and society in general do not know yet any acceptable/established alternatives.
My bet is on "open horizontal stack". Right now, every college is a small "vertical stack": its own library, teachers, physical space, etc. I think in the future we will have one national library (e.g. Chegg.com), one network of educational spaces, one network of classes (e.g. SupercoolSchool.com), one employment system for students, one office for transfer of technology, etc.
- Ad_Astra 16y agoI feel that your two statements do not agree well with one another. On the one hand, I do agree with you about the eventual future of education. However, I feel the timeline on that is fairly long, and it doesn't seem likely nothing else will be disrupted before that.
- yurylifshits 16y agoAd_Astra, I agree with you. There are two tracks of innovation for education. Track 1: Fixing existing system Track 2: Building new educational stack First track can lead to faster traction. But the "Google of education" is likely to be born on the second stack.
- mkramlich 16y agoThere's so much regulation & inertia with Track 1 that I'd lean to Track 2. In fact, I've already started taking a whack at it.