a list of the 5 disruptive things ed-tech startups are doing. I would love to hear your thoughts – as educators, as entrepreneurs – on what other metrics you might use for evaluating this disruption. After all, if as Bill Gates suggests that in five years the best education will come from the web, we should probably consider now what we want that education to look like if it’s to be different than just an online version of that old factory model.

via 5 Ways Tech Startups Can Disrupt the Education System.

What are the five things?

1. Should be based on “freemium” model
2. Structured to encourage grassroots (not top-down) adoption
3. Focus on individual learners, not “sage on stage” – needs a learning environment focus
4. Built around “open” as in OpenCourseWare
5. Use open source software and encourage students to write code to make the system work better.