it is misleading to suggests that all, or even most, aspects of providing an education should, or could, be placed into the hands of [teachers]
Historically, it has been impractical to break up the roles of the teacher. You need a certain scale even to have a separate person assigned as a librarian or an audio-visual coordinator. You need a much greater scale, not to mention much better coordination, to have separate people assigned as lecturers, coaches, theorizers and evaluators. Yet relatively few of these roles need to be performed in person, and most of them scale pretty well. This means that with improved information and communications technologies we can begin to rethink how we've organized labor in education.
This is in fact what is happening online, at least, outside the circles of formal education
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the reality is that tuition for online schools is not consistently lower than tuition for traditional schools across the board. How much you'll pay depends on the type of school and its prestige, as well as your personal financial aid package-whether you're studying online or in a classroom.
Next Generation Learning Challenges means to Dramatically increase college readiness and completion by fostering the development and adoption of technologies that enable more flexible, high-quality learning experiences for all students.
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