Originally Posted by Val
Originally Posted by Dude
Originally Posted by Bostonian
Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and other tech companies are all for-profit companies, and the quality of their products has improved over the years.

Windows 8. 'Nuff said.

Oh dear. Don't even get me started on that train wreck.

LOL-- even assuming that were true--

how exactly does a business model translate into education?

Most people coming at that assume that STUDENTS are customers.

Most educators will tell you that is flatly WRONG.

Taxpayers and society are your customers. Your graduates are your "product."

Students are participants in the process of generating a good product. They aren't "end-users."


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.