The Open Education Open Debate « Unlimited Magazine - 0 views
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While there might be a few people who can (and should) take advantage of open-source learning models, there are, I suspect, far more who can’t.
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More important, I think, is the fact that concepts of open teaching and MOOCs marginalize the role of the teacher and the importance of the act – the art – of teaching.
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teaching, for better or worse, is a corporeal activity that can’t be replicated with the suite of technologies to which we have access today. Until we find the tools that allow us to replicate the classroom experience in an online environment, MOOCs will remain simulacra, hollow and atonal echoes of what the educational process is really about
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