Today’s university content

Today’s university content is online and almost free with Netflix documentaries, masterclass series, udemy or coursera, and skillshare with people sharing knowledge and skills.

Knowledge delivery has never been so easy and accessible to people. Universities just lay their ground base on a stamp as this diploma we got from them with this brand as the name of this big and best university we came from. These universities have made so many genius persons increasing their brand names but the Internet with a long tail content distribution of knowledge started to compete with universities and has already produced great entrepreneurs and leading companies.

I think that online education has almost already disrupted universities and schools. Late professor Clayton Christensen explained this through the lens of its theory the innovator dilemma. The drop rate from universities is high and online learning has not made it better but worse. The problem of education now is not the delivery of courses because everybody can get them easily. But the problem is to make the dropout rate lower and to make it student-centered and project-driven. That’s my point and I do agree that the schools and universities I went into did a great job of shaping me and making me smarter but in today's connected world they for sure can do better. They can produce more problems solvers and leaders not only compliant executives workers at the mercy of the industrial complex and its flow of economic cycles.