1. UNBUNDLING EDUCATION
Replacing Services, One Fragment at a Time.
By Michael Staton, Founder, Inigral.
Content delivery Models of thinking and doing Content sequencing and
pathways
Online, students have access to more Instructors can rely on demon-
engaging and entertaining content and strations of thinking and Students will have easy access to more
instructors with more authority and doing put online by experts constructivist cirriculum packages and
expertise. in their fields, freeing have courses of study with a tighter
them to focus on the alignment to the job market.
direct
relationship with An
the student. affiliate
A network
transformative
The internet has
experience created decentralized
networks that are tightly
Students starting college are
integrated with a student’s career
seeking a space to grow as
path, making it easy to
people. The internal transformation
assemble a personal learning
may be hard to achieve online,
network that provides inspiration
but may be possible through
and peer feedback.
alternative in-person programs.
A signal to the job
A supervised coming
market
of age
Traditionally, a degree is a signifier
What helps students come of
of motivation, socialization, and
age? Events and curriculum that
learning capability. The internet
build character, provide
is introducing alternative
opportunities for leadership,
signifiers for skills and
and force students to A proficiency.
interact with different credential of
cultures and
Feedback
ideas. leading to mastery Mentorship estimated competency
While feedback on simple math Given the variation in content
Potential mentors
or code problems is relatively and quality across the education
generally lack the
easy to do at scale, feedback on system, a diploma does not always
drive or time to find
speech, presentation, writing, and correlate tightly to skill sets in demand.
and filter new young
communication are markedly difficult to people to mentor. Within
automate or scale. the shared environment of
academia, the "pay it
forward" value of mentorship
is more immediately apparent.