Past the Point of No Return: The Not-So-Shadow Education Sector

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Past the Point of No Return: The Not-So-Shadow Education Sector
Sasha Thackaberry, WCET Frontiers, 2019/02/05
This came up on Bryan Alexander's podcast, it came up in a post I wrote yesterday, and it keeps coming up as people talk about the "future of education" and "the future of colleges" as though they're one and the same thing. They're not. That's why Sasha Thackaberry writes, "The point-of-no-return has been reached in higher education; most institutions just don’t know it." What we're seeing is a constant increase in the range and volume of alternatives. "Into this landscape comes the 'Shadow Education Sector,' which is increasingly less shadowy," writes Thackaberry. More...