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Technology could very well disrupt higher education, but not completely tear it down. Just like Airbnb disrupts hotels but Hotels still exist and are doing bett
by kamphey 4y ago
Technology could very well disrupt higher education, but not completely tear it down. Just like Airbnb disrupts hotels but Hotels still exist and are doing better now than ever.
What the future of education looks like is a lot more fractured than we can see in the past. We might think of "higher education" as just a college/university, but in reality there are already alternative forms of higher education and those will continue to be added to.
Sure MooC's seemed like scams, but some MooC's allow a huge scale of knowledge transfer. And some Cohort Based Courses as well, now. I like how Maven talks about courses as "transformational" and not just "knowledge transfer".
I'm looking forward to more and more types of higher education in the near future. Retreats, Online-Only, Hybrid, etc.
- thwayunion 4y agoI don't think anyone ever thought they sounded like scams. At least, I didn't. They just weren't viable replacements for a traditional degree program. Which is fine, as long as you're not a VC losing your LP's money on something that anyone who has taught a few times know won't scale :)