Could Khan Academy be falling into the same trap as other tech innovations that best serve a better
educated and affluent population?
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How Are Teachers and Students Using Khan Academy? | MindShift - 6 views
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I agree. I used to link to them at many of my Free Interne to Libraries but when he got money they got pretty and less useful. I explore the tech issue at my Geekability site. It is illogical to thing tech will lower the economic spread between people. See http://www.textbooksfree.org/Geekability%20the%20New%20Intelligence%20Destroying%20America's%20Middle%20Class.htm and http://www.textbooksfree.org/Free%20Internet%20Libraries.htm
Data, Technology, and the Great Unbundling of Higher Education | EDUCAUSE - 2 views
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the "4 Rs" that have emerged as the dominant metrics in higher education: Rankings Research Real Estate Rah! (Sports)
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as Purdue University President Mitch Daniels has said: "Higher education has to get past the 'take our word for it' era. Increasingly, people aren't."2
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the market is no longer viewing the 4 Rs as proxies of excellence.
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E-Learning Startup Udacity Raises $35M to Launch 'Nanodegrees' - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ - 0 views
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“We’re taking specific jobs and reverse-engineering them to teach what’s required and then certifying a person in that area,” Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun said.
Coursera and MITx - sustaining or disruptive? - Changing Higher Education - 0 views
Exploring the Impact of the Amazon Effect on Higher Education | The EvoLLLution - 1 views
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The “Amazon effect”
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Even in businesses that are not direct competitors of Amazon, such as industrial conglomerates, aerospace companies and defense contractors, we regularly hear about changing customer expectations, shaped by the new realities of the consumer space, influencing requirements.
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While commercial businesses are clearly experiencing the changes brought about by the “Amazon effect,” there are many other sectors of the economy that are being impacted as well. For instance, higher education is beginning to reevaluate its own value propositions and business models in light of changing customer expectations, new budgetary realities and the explosion in online learning.
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