The unbundling of education.
The free market gets a growing share of education.
Parents get more control.
The internet can deliver interactive educational experiences that go far beyond the passive experiences of books and videos. The development costs for a particular experience can be spread over a large number of users and so can be much higher. Thus the economics will favor creating educational experiences in bundles
The Empty Classroom
Unbundling education
- Unbundling (Investopedia)
- Unbundling means a change in which products previously sold together are separated and sold in their constituent parts.
- Education Is Unbundling—Three Key Trends to Watch
Higher education
- Unbundling of higher education
- University as a Service: The Future of Higher Education and the Great Unbundling
- What is unbundling in higher education and why is it happening?
- The Unbundled University: Researching Emerging Models in an Unequal Landscape.
- Scholarly articles for unbundling of higher education
- How Fast and Furious Will Be the Unbundling of College Education?
K-12 education
The bundles of education
- Big bundles: "Teaching" and credentialing
- "Teaching" means establishing conditions in which students learn.
- Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching.
Credentials
- The credentials in education are well-known: diplomas, degrees.
- In the old days the educators also determined the fitness for credentials..
- Any expert in quality control would have told them you don't want the producers certifying their products.
- Credentialing (Wikipedia)
- We’re Way Past Degrees: Rethinking Credentialing for the 21st Century
- State achievement tests in the United States
- High school diploma
- Exit examination
- Micro-credential Guidance
- How to Design Online Assessments to Measure Training Effectiveness
"Teaching"
- Maintain conditions in which students learn.
- Learning requires content, and practice with feedback.
- In the old days, content was unbundled into textbooks.
- And the practice with feedback was managed by big institutions.
- In the new days the internet allows bundling by content.
Unbundling the institutions of education
- The unbundled parts may come from various sources.
- Private, charter and home schools are already one step into unbundling.
- As are the developing learning pods.
- Any school may step further into unbundling by using online courses.
Why unbundle?
- Facilities could be unbundled because they are instructional content.
- LIke text books and plastic models of the brain.
- Suitable for use in many learning contexts, but only with an instructor.
- Automated instruction might be unbundled because it requires technical skills.
- And because it would be limited to field trips and beginner instruction.
- Instructor-led training might be left where the instructors are.
- Universities or instructional companies.
Potential unbundlers
Any entrepreneurial contributor to education is a potential unbundler.
Any entrepreneurial contributor to education is a potential unbundler.
Instructional companies
- Cambium Learning Group
- 12 Companies Transforming Education To Watch Next Year
- Best 100 Companies for Flexible Online Education Jobs
Instructional content providers
Entrepreneurial teachers: Learning pods
- Desperate parents are turning to ‘learning pods’ this fall. Here’s what it can cost
- "She’s expecting to pay between $75 and $80 an hour for four to six kids, split by the participants.
- "The children will use their school district’s virtual curriculum and work out of a parent’s home."
- Learning pods (Search)
Entrepreneurial software
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
Digital field trips
Possible entrepreneurial universities
The entrepreneurial educator
- Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.
- A virtual campus could accommodate all of these use cases.
- With world-wide reach
- Tiny facilities cost
- No transportation cost in money or time.
- Services can be unbundled: facilities, automated instruction, instructor-led training.
- This situation offers potential for a disruptive change
- This is a job for Entrepreneur.
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