Don’t Call Them Students. They’re Entrepreneurs.

Many years ago, when a new dean at my university referred to the faculty as “content providers,” my colleagues and I rolled our eyes. It was the latest hokey label for an old profession.

There was “sage on the stage” (the distant lecturer on the podium), “guide on the side” (the collaborative, student-centered instructor) and, in the laptop classroom in which the teacher meanders behind the students, the “peer at the rear.”