Resisting the Marketisation of Learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Resisting the Marketisation of Learning
Rob Watson, Rob Watson Media, April 2, 2013
It's interesting. One of the predicted side-effects of treating education as a business was that the business would focus more on the customer. Though this sounds good in practice, in fact what has happened is that the new business-like education would determine that students don't have enough money, and that henceforth the customer would be the ultimate 'consumers' of the educational 'product', business and industry. More...