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The way to really bust up the higher education cartel is move to a certification process versus a diploma process because a diploma process maintains that cartel within these institutions of higher education.

We’ve got the internet -- you have so much information available. Why do you have to keep paying different lecturers to teach the same course? You get one solid lecturer and put it up online and have everybody available to that knowledge for a whole lot cheaper? But that doesn’t play very well to tenured professors in the higher education cartel. So again, we need disruptive technology for our higher education system.

would you be better off popping in 14 hours of Ken Burns’s Civil War tape and then have those teachers proctor based on that excellent video production already done?

I'm here to support teachers, not replace them.

I would argue that there never was a viable vision for MOOCs in higher education in the first place. The big three MOOC providers’ trial-and-error efforts to find a viable business model are what led to their shifts in strategy and ultimately the departure of their founders for fields outside of education.

He’s thinking big now. He imagines that in 10 years, job applicants will tout their Udacity degrees. In 50 years, he says, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.

Google's top education expert predicts what schools will look like in 50 years

"We should never underestimate the importance of social interaction and co-working," he tells Business Insider. "So as much as schools want to get the value of calculus or coding into kids' heads, let's not forget to teach how to interact with each other."

That's where Rochelle sees machine learning entering the picture. Educators will be able to give students online tests that are smart enough to group kids by interest and skill level, rather than the current system of grouping them by age.

That kind of intuitive machine learning could also help put kids on the right career path.

Those who don't like math but show a strong capacity for reading and language may be told they don't need to take calculus, for example, while another student whose scores favor math can focus on that.

Sophisticated data like this will create the perfect conditions for the kind of collaboration that is essential to effective learning, Rochelle says.

Edtech is the next fintech

Fintech startups identified a shift in society, one led by a hungry consumer demand for innovative and digital services.

This presents a window of opportunity for investors trying to spot, catch and ride the wave of the next “fintech”.

Enter edtech — 2017’s big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.

For the past 150 years or so, most learning models — especially regarding children — have barely changed: A teacher or lecturer stands at the front of the classroom explaining ideas or introducing facts while students sit and listen with the learning materials being mostly physical textbooks or printouts.

students are born with digital DNA

When considered like a business, education institutions need to cater to the digital demand of their consumers — people who are constantly exposed to digital technologies outside of the classroom have come to expect the same digital capabilities within the four walls of a learning environment.

Unlike the ups and downs of the financial markets, edtech remains constant, sheltered from many of the pressures of the broader geopolitical landscape. It is somewhat of a safe haven for smart money from smart investors.

edtech is poised to be the biggest and possibly most profitable digitalized sector yet.

חמש יחידות מתמטיקה זה לא כל הסיפור

בחינת מצבת כוח האדם של חברות ההיי־טק הגדולות מלמדת על גיוון ברקע החינוכי, בניסיון ובכישורים המקצועיים של העובדים.

חברות הטכנולוגיה הגדולות מעסיקות אמנים, סופרים והוגי רעיונות כדי שיטפחו יצירתיות בארגון, פתיחות, גמישות וחשיבה מחוץ לקופסה. אלה לא בהכרח הכישורים שפתרון בעיות דיפרנציאליות מסייע לטפח - להיפך.

מערכות החינוך התיכוני והגבוה צריכות להתקרב לעולם התעסוקה ולהבין את השינוי הדרמטי שעובר עליו - ואז לחזור לכיתות ולתת לתלמידים כלים מגוונים כדי להצליח בעולם שאנחנו לא יודעים עליו הרבה.

How Dewey Lost:
The Victory of David Snedden and Social Efficiency in the Reform of American Education

Vocational education is irreducibly and without unnecessary mystification, education for the pursuit of an occupation

I object to regarding as vocational education any training which does not have as its supreme regard the development of such intelligent initiative, ingenuity and executive capacity as shall make workers, as far as may be, the masters of their own industrial fate.

I am regretfully forced to the conclusion that the difference between us is not so much narrowly educational as it is profoundly political and social. The kind of vocational education in which I am interested is not one which will "adapt" workers to the existing industrial regime; I am not sufficiently in love with the regime for that. It seems to me that the business of all who would not be educational time servers is to resist every move in this direction, and to strive for a kind of vocational education which will first alter the existing industrial system, and ultimately transform it.

In many schools today, the phrase "computer-aided instruction" means making the computer teach the child. One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer and, in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intimate contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building. (עמ' 5)

It is not true to say that the image of a child's relationship with a computer I shall develop here goes far beyond what is common in today's schools. My image does not go beyond: It goes in the opposite direction.