The Netflix of Education, ad nauseum
Curtiss Barnes,
eLiterate,
Dec 21, 2020
I have said over and over (to little effect inside our own institution) that "education is not a search problem". Or, as Curtiss Barnes far more eloquently puts it here, "Simply providing 'consumers' with a playlist of educational content will not be the winning strategy. Education is something that is done by the learner, actively facilitated by the educator, rather than 'Netflix and Chill'." So why does the 'Netflix of education' tagline persist? Barnes offers some explanations for the literal use of the phrase, but more interesting are the figurative uses and a "new way forward" for the concept. Barnes writes, "for the Netflix of Education to work, the first issue is proper identification of the end user. I posit the most effective model suggests that is the educator."
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