Technology in Higher Education
I’ve pre-ordered a copy of Anya Karmenez’s new book, DIY U, addressing the hot topic in higher education these days–whether technology will change the higher education marketplace much as blogs and Craigslist have changed the media marketplace. The Chronicle has a interview where she speculates:
Technology accelerates disaggregation or unbundling of services. For the newspaper industry, it meant the stock scores went to one place and the classifieds went to Craigslist, so all of a sudden the features of the newspaper were being provided by a bunch of different places. And I see the same type of thing happening much more easily in education, through technology. So now at MIT the best physicists in the world provide free lectures, but you might still need one-on-one tutoring.
This is not exactly a bold prediction. And based on Kerry Howley’s review of Karmenez’s previous book, Generation Debt, I suspect that her reporting will be on firmer ground than her advocacy. Nonetheless, looking forward to reading.
More on academic entrepreneurship at Washington Post and AEI.
