Higher-Ed Is Ripe for Disruption . . .

[redcliffsw]

Disrupt or Be Disrupted

The core idea of Disrupt or be Disrupted is that every sector and industry that avoids being disrupted just becomes a fatter target for disruption.

Higher education is a prime example. The industry has successfully staved off disruption by maintaining a lock on credentialing/accreditation–the famous signaling value of a college diploma, which verifies nothing about what the student learned or knows.

Healthcare is another sector with bloated costs and protected fiefdoms that is ripe for fundamental disruption. Reductions of 50% or more that lead to better overall health do not require whizbang science fiction advances; simply eliminating the paperwork and cartels and making patients responsible for their care and the costs of their treatments would be enough to unleash a disruptive revolution.

Read on:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/04/charles-hugh-smith/bloated-higher-ed-is-ripe-for-disruption/

[Ross]

Apparently School Accreditation's have become of little value due to all the cheating in Academia.

Also I believe the use and abuse of the term by NGO's and what amounts to nothing more than a false accreditation by their own selves is relative to this situation. It could simply be an easy form of falsifying credibility and nothing more.

A paragraph from the article:

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"Employers should receive more than an increasingly worthless signal–they should be offered an accreditation of each individual's actual skills and knowledge. This is self-evident, but impossible in the current cartel-state arrangement."
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Another paragraph from the article to wrap your head around.

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"That leaves everyone depending on any existing sector/industry that hasn't yet been turned upside down with a choice: either join the disruptors or prepare to be disrupted."
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I think words are being used a bit different because of the advancing of technology, ya just don't hear terminology like "sink or swim" anymore. And characteristics of things tangible of intangible have changed considerably.

I can see the day when we no longer have teachers in the class room, they will be replaced by either room monitors or they may be called technicians. Computers will provide the lesson plans and educated the children with control from afar. And home schooling will be used more of a weapon against big government control rather than like today, for protection from bad teachers and bad schools. The argument made by many educators  that the children home schooled will miss out on socialization was just simply a bad argument a bad sales pitch and always has been.