synthesis - A New Education Business Model - Open Accreditation Services

SEATTLE, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The following blog post was published on April 21, 2010, by Shafeen Charania, author of the synthesis blog, winner of the 2008 Weblog award for best new blog, and Time.com's 25 best blogs of 2009.

"Change lies within."  This is the way most of us think about it; but most *real* change is a response to more powerful external forces. For too long, we've been trying to change education from within, and we've failed.

Education's "power" lies in being the gatekeeper to employment (they grant accreditation). Education has (and will) successfully resist change until that power is at risk (look no further than the music, video and advertising businesses).

To change, education must lose its monopoly on employment gatekeeping. It began with most of us putting education at the bottom of our resumes, it continues with employers paying less attention to where you went to school vs. what you did and can do. And it will end when schools, like music, realize that students have other options, and will be forced to finally compete.

To learn more, please visit: http://interacc.typepad.com/synthesis/2010/04/open-accreditation-services.html.

SOURCE synthesis Blog