The System For Student-Centric Learning
This is a complicated chapter to read and understand.
Education, like a private business, is a "commercial system". "A commercial system is the context within which a firm establishes its cost structure and operating processes and works with suppliers and channel partners to respond profitably to customers common needs. The reason the whole commercial system must be replaced for a disruption to occur is that, in each stage, the actors's business models, economic incentives, and rhythms of innovation and technological paradigms are consistent and mutually reinforcing. Companies with disruptive economies simply are not plug-compatible in the old commercial system. What this means is that the entire system for creating education materials, making the decisions about which materials to adopt, and delivering the content to students must and will change."
The Innovators Dilemma that Mr. Christensen wrote about in 1997.
The book describes public education's current commercial system as being a value chain model (think manufacturing, retail, food service). The disruption that will occur will displace this system with a facilitated user network model (telecommunications, insurance, banking). In this system, "the network is a supporting infrastructure" in which "participation in the network typically isn't the primary profit engine for participants."
The ramifications on teaching, curriculum, content delivery, and investment in education will change the way the world learns.
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