The move to online classrooms

In 2008, when Liberating Learning Blog contributor Michael B. Horn, co-author of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, began promoting his book, people told him that he was nuts to say that “by 2019” projections show “50 percent of all high school courses will be online.”

Something happened. A few months later, people told Horn he was nuts because the 2019 date was “way too conservative.” Change, he was told, was happening a lot faster than he and his co-author realized.

This wide-ranging, 2009 discussion is part of San Diego-based High Tech High School’s Graduate School of Education “Education Unboxed Speaker Series.” In the video, Horn talks about how online learning, hybrid education models and how online learning is a big opportunity to get effective teachers to the right student.