Today’s NY Times article by Clay Christensen, Online Education as an Agent of Transformation, contains two points important which PSA has recognized, but universities have been loathe to accept:
- many universities have jumped on the MOOC bandwagon, creating a hodgepodge of these massive open online courses for public consumption. But for MOOCs to really fulfill their disruptive potential, they must be built into low-cost programs with certification of skills of value to employers.
- those that truly innovate – fundamentally transforming the model, instead of just incorporating the technology into established methods of operation
The next post article by Anna Kamentz covers those two points also.
We are still just getting started in the transformation of education, at all levels, and the new may take forms we can start to recognize, but also those as yet unimagined.
(admin: changed this to PDF which readily opens in new browser tab, although there’s probably a way to get a Word Doc to open in a new browser tab too…)