> We've seen this before: use hype and techno-optimism to sell a bill of goods.
Yep, after reading a piece on ed-tech failures of the decade 2010-2020[0] here on HN[1], I've become pretty convinced that big-scale education is hard (if not impossible) to solve with IT might only.
Sure, one person alone can learn something through Wikipedia, Coursera, YouTube, Khan Academy or tutorials, but that can't replace structured environments if your missiob is to educate lots of people.
Yep, after reading a piece on ed-tech failures of the decade 2010-2020[0] here on HN[1], I've become pretty convinced that big-scale education is hard (if not impossible) to solve with IT might only.
Sure, one person alone can learn something through Wikipedia, Coursera, YouTube, Khan Academy or tutorials, but that can't replace structured environments if your missiob is to educate lots of people.
[0] http://hackeducation.com/2019/12/31/what-a-shitshow
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21948132