http://rodeworks.com/learn/what-is-the-web-20-business-model/ Gather Ideas | Explore Trends | Develop Solutions Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:48:59 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://rodeworks.com/learn/what-is-the-web-20-business-model/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Randy Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:34:44 +0000 http://rodeworks.com/?p=1198#comment-443 Excellent point. For-profits like Capella University offer quality on-line education. And in Capella's case they do so by centralizing much of the work in creating a course. Faculty are hired to teach a course, and I think add their own spin to it, but it is not their creation as it so often is in non-profit academic departments. It is a pretty unappealing to contemplate giving up the handcrafted quality of education, but continuing pressure to trim costs may force it. It may be that the richness of the experience will be created more by the students and their learning community than the faculty member or the institution. Excellent point. For-profits like Capella University offer quality on-line education. And in Capella’s case they do so by centralizing much of the work in creating a course. Faculty are hired to teach a course, and I think add their own spin to it, but it is not their creation as it so often is in non-profit academic departments. It is a pretty unappealing to contemplate giving up the handcrafted quality of education, but continuing pressure to trim costs may force it. It may be that the richness of the experience will be created more by the students and their learning community than the faculty member or the institution.

]]> http://rodeworks.com/learn/what-is-the-web-20-business-model/comment-page-1/#comment-440 Cassandra Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:14:28 +0000 http://rodeworks.com/?p=1198#comment-440 Perhaps the biggest problem stems from the incapability of online education and traditional Universities. It is clearly an oil and vinegar venture that has not figured out a workable mix. Online education is not the future, The future is here and the "for-profits" have figured out how to do it well by running education as a business instead of focusing on the business of education. The former understands the way to add an egg to make it blend, the latter just keeps adding more vinegar and wonders why it is not more palatable. Perhaps the biggest problem stems from the incapability of online education and traditional Universities. It is clearly an oil and vinegar venture that has not figured out a workable mix. Online education is not the future, The future is here and the “for-profits” have figured out how to do it well by running education as a business instead of focusing on the business of education. The former understands the way to add an egg to make it blend, the latter just keeps adding more vinegar and wonders why it is not more palatable.

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