"Revolutionary." "Disruptive." These terms are used with such
frequency that they may have lost much of their meaning. That's not to
say that there aren't plenty of products and services that are
innovative, and plenty of systems, plenty of organizations that are ripe
for disruption or "revolution." Take education, for example. Our
modern education system is, after all, not so modern, with many of its
practices strongly rooted in a "factory" model circa the Industrial
Revolution. But what does revolutionizing education really look like?
And which startups working in education technology are really
"disruptive"?
A recent thread on Quora bypasses the "revolutionary" and "disruptive" adjectives, asking instead "What are some interesting startups in the education space?" But a recent blog post at The Teaching Master does invoke these adjective, listing the "Top 25 Web Startups Revolutionizing Teaching." Neither the Quora nor the Teaching Master post offer metrics. There's no indication of what makes a "top" startup or what constitutes "interesting," let alone "revolutionary" work in the ed-tech space.
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Author: Audrey Watters
