Recently, I was invited by INMA.org – the leading newspaper / news media trade blog – to join their roster of bloggers. My blog on INMA, titled Tech Trends, looks at the technology, products and innovations emerging out of Silicon Valley, and evaluates the implications and resulting opportunities for legacy media firms.
My first post, published earlier this month, was on Apple Watch, and how news media companies could …
It is been nearly four years since that infamous Stanford MOOC, Introducing AI, that saw over 160,000 students signing up, was offered. Since then we have seen a tremendous amount of buzz around MOOCs and digital courses. Initially the buzz was all positive – NYT even called 2012 the year of the MOOC – and then it seemed MOOCs could do nothing right, as the world discovered their low …
The impact of technology and the internet on higher education, specifically on how they have enabled an unbundling of the constituent parts of the university, has been chronicled to death. This unbundling, and the consequent disruption it has entailed through the rise of MOOCs, sharing services such as Chegg, and employment marketplaces such as Campus Job has been detailed extensively.
In my previous post, I took a look at …