Hamilton & Disney's Education Flywheel (Audio Edition)

Hollis Robbins: Most people focus on the vast reserves of content now available online, but few people ask: “Is this a good teacher?”

I’m a firm believer in the importance of making education, job training, and opportunities accessible to all. Yet I don't think we can rely on governments and institutions to provide them. Can you imagine having the best teachers in the world create compelling online courses that are free and accessible for all? They could do that with a business m... See more

Phase 3: Education designed for the internet (e.g. MasterClass Codecademy). We are still early in this phase — actually designing classes for the web. When Phase 1 made information easily accessible, the role of education became not the transfer of facts (which many classes still rely on) — but to inspire you to go learn, to go do, to geek out. To ... See more

While some would argue that YouTube has become an online school in its own right, there’s huge opportunity to offer curated, high quality, live educational experiences.