Clayton M. Christensen, my co-author on Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns and I teamed up again to write a article for Forbes.com.
In the piece, we look at the angst many districts are experiencing this summer—teacher layoffs, budget cuts, and a future of smaller revenue streams because of a reduction in property taxes, an outgrowth of the housing bust.
But out of the pain, there may be some gain. For example, the people who run many schools realize that they can save considerably by cutting back on traditional classroom versions of non-core courses--advanced placement, foreign language, economics and so forth--and instead offer them online, thereby aggregating demand across many school districts. Likewise they can cut back on the number of periods during which they offer certain classroom courses and still offer affordable methods to meet student demand by offering those courses online.
We hope that there will be some gain from this pain.
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