Raymond Morel 4023 days ago
Sig Behrens is a president of Blackboard, Inc.
"Higher education is the next bubble. Facebook will replace classroom instruction. Textbooks will go away, and some colleges will, too.
In other words, everything is going to change. Or, at least, that's the talk we in education and technology regularly hear these days. It sounds exciting—and, to some, scary.
But it also sounds like what I heard during the dot-com boom of the 1990s when a lot of companies—including Blackboard—began using technology to "disrupt" the education status quo. Since then we've made some important progress, but in many ways the classroom still looks the same as it did 100 years ago. So what's different this time? Is all the talk just hype? Or are we really starting to see the beginnings of major change?"