Obstacles and Opportunities for Disruption in Education
Education Futures
English - February 14, 2020 23:00 - 8 minutes - 6.13 MBGovernment Business Non-Profit education edtech future learning higher education college Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What can education learn from online dating and e-commerce platforms? Simplicity and reduced friction. Making education easy to access and easy to use is an important key to success in the coming decade.
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We’re seeing a good, three-pronged strategy for market disruption in the food industry. New methods of production, new methods of distribution, and new merchandising. How will existing education institutions respond and/or adapt?
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A recent report on mobile web traffic by SimilarWeb reminds us of the modified user behavior influenced by mobile modalities. After all, even large smartphone devices still have that fits-in-one-hand form factor. It’s interesting to think about how education, with its big screen and big-stage mentality, will adapt to “smaller” in the next decade.