Its worse than that, traditional business education is dead, Jim [Video]

Pictured above: Star Trek’s Doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy.

In a candid and witty reflection, Dr Steve Scott, Senior Lecturer at PIHMS, questions the future of traditional business education. From counting sheep to curating YouTube playlists, he makes the case for a shift from content delivery to context creation in a world where knowledge is just a click away.

I ‘teach’ at a tertiary institution overlooking the ocean in a remote provincial town. Some days when I’m trapped in meetings, like this one, bored, I count the sheep grazing on the opposing grassy knoll. When I first started here, I was never able to get a definitive answer – the little white clouds would blow about randomly, killing my anxious need for numerical accuracy. Or I’d be interrupted by a chatty colleague, who was oblivious to my pursuit of this important mathematical certainty. But, as of today, I can confirm it is 22. Over the months, the sheep numbers …