How Online Innovators Are Disrupting Education - Jason Orgill and Douglas Hervey - Harv... - 4 views
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In fact, Gates, Khan, and teachers at the academy argue that online education can liberate teachers, allowing them to engage in more creative and influential one-on-one mentoring.
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teachers can serve as professional coaches and content architects to help students progress in ways that they never could under most current models
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Targeting non-consumers creates less backlash from teachers' unions and administrators, and could even generate student referrals from incumbents themselves.