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Education as Platform Chris Dellarocas Professor of Information Systems Director, Digital Learning Initiative Boston University [email protected]
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Today’s educational institutions are platforms of bundled services
…but closed and full of restrictions
University
Students Teachers
Employers Businesses
States
Other Universities
Value Money
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Technological innovation is about to crack these platforms open
Educational Platform
Students Teachers
Employers Businesses
States
Other Platforms
Value Money
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Some (speculative) thoughts of what this might lead to
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1. The higher-ed bundle will be broken up
• Learning • Socialization • Peer network • Credentialing
• Each component will potentially be offered by a different entity – or even a different platform
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2. Degrees and courses will be unbundled and personalized
• Students will be able to mix and match learning resources at the level of a single video clip and assignment
• Many different players will curate materials to produce custom “courses,” “programs” and “degrees”
• Reputation mechanisms will help identify quality
• A repository of best-of-breed learning content will emerge
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3. The role of teacher will diversify
• Creators of content • Curators of content • Tutors • Life coaches
• Professional vs. amateur • “Rock stars” vs. long tail
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4. Skills will emerge as an important currency
• Students will customize their learning so as to master combinations of skills as opposed to pursuing generic “majors”
• Employers will similarly use skill sets to specify their needs in a more precise manner
• Grades are dead, long live competency-certificates (e.g. badges)
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5. Businesses and states will play a much more active role
• In addition to recruiting…
• Define (and subsidize?) skill requirements
• Design specialized curricula
• Perform own testing and credentialing
• Integrate experiential learning into their business processes
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6. Credentialing will emerge as a separate market
• Increased skill-level credentialing
• Using a combination or course-based and non-course-based data
• Competition for effective (i.e. “predictive”) credentials
• Emergence of a predictive analytics market (“moneyball” for all sorts of career paths)
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7. The availability of big data will impact every player
• Metrics of quality and ROI will be developed at all levels – Student learning – Professor performance – Socialization
effectiveness – Skill sets that “work” – Career outcomes – …
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What will all this mean?
• Industry-level efficiencies • Better matching of different sides
Educational Platform
Students Teachers
Employers Businesses
States
Other Platforms
Value
Money
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The role of the University in this new world?
• Like a newspaper in the world of Google
• Still relevant but not the main or only way to get the news
• Must “focus on what it does best and link to the rest” (as Jeff Jarvis would say)
• Must adapt as a part of a richer ecosystem
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Conclusions
• Educational institutions are already platforms
• Technology promises a substantial opening up of educational platforms
• The principles of platform theory promise an exciting ride ahead