Fast Company Looks at Online Education

Read a great article in Fast Company this week - How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education. The article says that "Suddenly, it is possible to imagine a new model of education using online resources to serve more students, more cheaply than ever before."

"The Internet disrupts any industry whose core product can be reduced to ones and zeros," says Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO of education startup Knewton. Education, he says, "is the biggest virgin forest out there."  

Cathy Casserly, a senior partner at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, says, "We're changing the culture of how we think about knowledge and how it should be shared and who are the owners of knowledge."

David Wiley of Brigham Young University has written, "universities will be irrelevant by 2020." Today, "open content" is the biggest front of innovation in higher education. The movement that started at MIT has spread to more than 200 institutions in 32 countries that have posted courses online at the OpenCourseWare Consortium.

Read the entire article here.