Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I love stories about outsourcing education to India. I think it’s fun and hopelessly interesting. Will we eventually reach a point where India has a better degree-to-citizen ratio than the US? (I’m assuming that hasn’t happened already). And will all those low-paid, obsequious tutors, teachers, paper writers, and (eventually professors) begin to turn all that knowledge inward and revolt? Should we be hiring Indian tutors to teach us about Karl Marx? Today I read this story about some rich punk whose mommy brings him cookies and OJ as he sweats through a leisurely private tutoring session on the Internet with his very own Indian geometry ace. Apparently, these outfits are raking in tens of millions in profits, and I see this as part of a trend towards outsourcing all across the educational spectrum.