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If you believe an education system is directly tied to the advancement of humankind, globalizing access to advanced subject matter from some of the world's top
by ken47 11y ago
If you believe an education system is directly tied to the advancement of humankind, globalizing access to advanced subject matter from some of the world's top professors could actually alter the course of human history for better. If that's something you care about, then it's probably something supporting with money.
It removes a suffocating constraint on the structure of the education system: finding instructors X capable of teaching some advanced/esoteric subject to students Y, in a sufficiently small geographic space. Under this constraint, sometimes the only solution has been a dumbed-down, cookie-cutter curriculum. Once online learning has matured, this will no longer be the case.
- wolfgke 11y ago> If that's something you care about, then it's probably something supporting with money. But this does not mean that the money with which you can support that issue is there...
- ghaff 11y agoOr you could read books or watch videos on YouTube, etc. Unfortunately, MOOCs are (for the most part) best at the same sort of broadcasts of information that are already available in a number of different ways.
- ken47 11y agoI wouldn't pose this as an either/or. MOOCs, as we know them today, are the next step in the evolution of online education.