Are Digital Disruptions Laying the Foundations for Holistic Education in the 21st Century?
By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
February 2020 PICKING ON THE PAST
WITH DISRUPTIONS IN major industries changing the structure of daily economic life, all of us should sense very clearly by now that the education industry – if you will allow me to call it an industry – is a ripe fruit that is about to fall in the digital storm that has been blowing around the world since the turn of this century.Education is indeed an industry, not only because it provides jobs, involves an enormous infrastructure of production and...
Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.
