Editors have traditionally determined what content runs in the newspaper every day. Teachers have traditionally determined what content runs in the classroom every day. Stated politically correct: both could benefit from tools to better understand customer demand and where areas of oversupply exist.
Also, I want to see an educational institution as a technology company. No mo’ vendors.
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“I want to see an educational institution as a technology company.”
What do you mean by that, exactly?
Where the educational institution is putting serious time and resources towards developing technology. Based on what I heard last night at the EdTech meetup, it appears that a lot of universities have a skeleton IT staff and depend heavily on vendors for the technology they do deploy. They do this because they have an almost guaranteed revenue from a product model they’ve hardly changed in 100 years.
Sound familiar? That’s exactly what newspaper companies have been like. Now they face competition from startups that can build new products faster than they can because they’re technology companies at the core.