Clayton Christensen on disruption in online education | The Next Web Earlier this year we discussed how the Internet is revolutionizing education and  featured several companies and organizations that are disrupting the  online education space including Open Yale, Open Culture, Khan  Academy, Academic Earth, P2PU, Skillshare, Scitable and Skype in the  Classroom. The Internet has changed how we interact with Time. We can be  learning all the time now, whenever we want, and wherever we want. And  because of that, we're seeing explosive growth in online education. In October, Knewton, an education technology startup, raised $33 million in its 4th round of funding to roll out its adaptive online learning platform. In early November, Khan Academy,  an online collection featuring over 2,100 educational videos ranging in  intensity from 1+1=2 to college level calculus and physics, snagged $5 million in funding to add two new faculty members that will create lectures for humanities and art-intensive classes. According to the 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning,  approximately 5.6 million students took at least one web-based class  during the fall 2009 semester, which marked a 21% growth from the  previous year. The Harvard Business School Review points out that this figure is up from 45,000 in 2000 and experts predict that online education could reach 14 million in 2014.
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