Eight Brilliant Minds on the Future of Online Education - Eric Hellweg - Our Editors - ... - 0 views
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The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. I say this for two main reasons. First, for the enormously transformative impact MOOCs can have on literally billions of people in the world. Second, for the equally disruptive effect MOOCs will inevitably have on the global education industry.
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You have to ask yourself, 'What is the nature of education as a good?' Ideally you want it to be learning. But it also functions as insurance.
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will and then they happen faster than you think they could.
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A teacher in the future will become more like a mentor. The model of on campus education will be more about mentorship and guidance with research as an important factor."
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"It's important to remember that we're not so good at understanding the subtleties of environments that make them attractive to people.
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The technology gives us tremendous power to solve this stark problem all around us. We need to design these so no child is left out of this. What need to ask, what is education after all? We need to resolve that. What are we getting our young people ready for? It's for the purpose of our life.