06.30.07

Disintermediation of education

Posted in Technology trends at 3:33 pm by ducky

It’s happening!

Twelve years ago, I started talking about disintermediation of education. Today I read an article in The Economist that talks about a gentleman from India named Krishnan Ganesh who has set up a company to provide Indian tutors to American schoolchildren.

Cooooooool.

2 Comments

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    November 19, 2007 at 11:43 pm

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