“Education As We Know It Is Finished”

by Collin Hitt That’s the title of a new Forbes piece by Clayton Christiansen and Michael Horn. School is out, and for most students enjoying their midsummer pleasures, class time is a distant memory. Changes are underway that make it likely to stay that way. Christiansen and Horn have written a book on the topic of “disruptive innovation” in...

by Collin Hitt

That’s the title of a new Forbes piece by Clayton Christiansen and Michael Horn.

School is out, and for most students enjoying their midsummer pleasures, class time is a distant memory. Changes are underway that make it likely to stay that way.

Christiansen and Horn have written a book on the topic of “disruptive innovation” in public education, predicting that schools are going to be transformed by online learning technology.  In particular, they estimate that – given an amicable policy environment – half of all high school work in American will be done online, by 2020.

Michael Horn was in Springfield and Peoria with the Illinois Policy Institute earlier this month, by the way, co-headlining a series of policy luncheons that discussed Illinois’s future for technology-driven education reform.  His group, the Innosight Institute, is doing great work on this topic.