[jmcqk6]

There is something very interesting to me about the rise of these courses. Everyone I've heard is expecting the jobs of the future to require higher order thinking skills: creativity, analytics, etc. Another way to put it would be thing that are on the higher end of [Bloom's Taxonomy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blooms_Taxonomy)

On the other hand, these courses are aimed at the opposite end of the taxonomy: remembering, recalling, etc. There are a few conclusions I can draw from this:

1) There is an upper limit on the possible effectiveness of purely technology driven education.

2) That ceiling will remain in place until there is an proven method of scaling up assessment of creativity and other higher order skills.

3) If you can solve 2, you're going to be very, very rich.

[Mvandenbergh]

I think that by their nature, things like creativity are not easily assessed in a fast standardised way. These skills are usually assessed by their application - if someone produces good creative and analytical work then I can count on them having those skills. That's why artists have portfolios and hackers have GitHub accounts, right? Of course the issue is that hiring people with those skills is harder because you can't screen them so easily - it requires people with skills equal to or greater than the applicant to spend considerable time evaluating their work product. That costs a lot more than just giving HR a minimum GPA for graduate hires.

[chii]

so instead of hiring an employee, you should be putting out RFP (request for proposals), which outlines what you want produced (creative things, a film, a game, or an application for your business). You also show your budget, and you ought to get proposals, and you pick the "best" one.