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"I wanted to avoid the usual doom and gloom—the usual 'it's all crap and there's no hope for the future,'

it's about people who are out of the box of education completely who are trying to improve the system."

pedagogical approach that employs technology that serves new models of learning—and not just for the sake of having the newest gadget in the lab.

This last decade of the music industry presages the coming decade of education. Choice is expanding at every level, from pre-k to graduate school. The individual course, rather than the degree, is becoming the unit of content. And universities, the record labels of education, are facing increased pressure to unbundle their services. So what will the future of education look like?

The price of content will freefall over the next seven years.

Education will be personalized.

online competency-based education stands out as the innovation most likely to disrupt higher education.

As traditional institutions struggle to innovate from within and other education technology vendors attempt to plug and play into the existing system, online competency-based providers release learning from the constraints of the academy. By breaking down learning into competencies—not by courses or even subject matter—these providers can cost-effectively combine modules of learning into pathways that are agile and adaptable to the changing labor market.

The fusion of modularization with mastery-based learning is the key to understanding how these providers can build a multitude of stackable credentials or programs for a wide variety of industries, scale them, and simultaneously drive down the cost of educating students for the opportunities at hand. These programs target a growing set of students who are looking for a different value proposition from higher education—one that centers on targeted and specific learning outcomes, tailored support, as well as identifiable skillsets that are portable and meaningful to employers.

a lack of transparency in the current credentialing maze has fueled the confusion and created a buyer-beware environment.

When every credential is unique to its issuer and impossible to compare with others, they all lose their value to job seekers and employers.

Funded by Lumina Foundation, the initiative will develop common terms for describing key features of credentials; create a voluntary, web-based registry for sharing the resulting information; and test practical apps (software applications) for employers, students, educators, and other credential stakeholders.

AssignFocus, designed to help teachers create personalized assignments aligned to their curriculum

"Empowering students to move at their own pace while supporting daily classroom math lessons,