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A book, "Failure to Disrupt Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education", recently came out about exactly this. In an interview, the author, Justin Reich, ex
by hypersoar 6y ago
A book, "Failure to Disrupt
Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education", recently came out about exactly this. In an interview, the author, Justin Reich, explained that schools perform so many different functions in so many different ways that MOOCs neve had a shot at replacing it. Instead, it got swallowed up and and integrated with our existing educational system.
[0]https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674089044 https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674089044
- rchaud 6y agoIt's never been about "disrupting" anything, least of all education and healthcare. It's about convincing enough investors that you can, and pulling in as much money as possible before the whole thing collapses. Not true for all startups, but increasingly common among the moonshot ones.