Microvouchers can allow individual families or students to choose specific learning products and services not just once a year or once a semester, but by the week, day, or hour. Unlike vouchers for school or college tuition, microvouchers will create a true, wide-open, location-free, competitive market for learning which has the elasticity to efficiently and quickly match supply and demand.
Predictor: Perelman, Lewis J.
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article he wrote for Wired magazine, Lewis J. Perelman addresses the future of education in an age of digital networks in the form of an open letter to the nation’s information industry executives. He writes:”Using modern electronic card-account technology, microvouchers can allow individual families or students to choose specific learning products and services not just once a year or once a semester, but by the week, day, or hour. Unlike vouchers for school or college tuition, microvouchers will create a true, wide-open, location-free, competitive market for learning which has the elasticity to efficiently and quickly match supply and demand.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: School’s Out: The Hyperlearning Revolution Will Replace Public Education
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.01/hyperlearning_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stotler, Larry