Innovation is a series of bundlings and unbundlings.
Entrepreneurial individuals see a bunch of disparate resources and pull them together into a whole more valuable than the sum of the parts.
Then things change. The next set of entrepreneurial individuals see value left on the table, and break the whole into parts, tweak them, and serve people a la carte in a way that creates more value than the whole.
These things are happening in both directions all the time, across all industries.
Education is in the early stages of a massive unbundling, which will inevitably be followed by rebundling in new ways.
First, everything got put into ever bigger bundles. School became the giant blob that absorbed all facets of the life of anyone under 18.
Then, more and more people began breaking away from that bundle and trying different bundles – private schools, alternative schools, homeschool programs.
Now, not just one bundle, but all the bundles are getting unbundled. The walls are breaking down. The lines blurred.
Education is beginning to open.
Kids can pick and choose items from any of the bundles. Music at the public school, two days a week at a private school, a homeschool co-op, a teacher, a little unschooling or worldschooling sprinkled in.
Each kid can have their own personal bundle, different each semester and season of life, comprised of the pieces they pick from these other big bundles.
No longer do you have to choose Mainstream Ed bundle or Alt Ed bundle – both made by others and intended to serve masses.
You can create your own bundle.