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I believe open teaching creates transparency that will enable us to better identify the "bad" ones and allow them to improve their craft through feedback loops.
by brianpmarks 13y ago
I believe open teaching creates transparency that will enable us to better identify the "bad" ones and allow them to improve their craft through feedback loops. This openness will generate more and better teachers. Those that simply lecture to masses are likely to be replaced because they don't provide true value to students. (disclosure: I'm co-founder of trinket.io.)
- gravity13 13y agoI was a bit confused by what you meant "open" until I read more of your company's blog || What is Open Teaching? || Open teaching means teaching using open materials and providing open access to those materials on the internet. I gotta say I agree, I would love to see a future where the teachers are curating the content rather than the assigned curriculum. But those bad teachers, they've really come to rely on their curriculums. P.S. looking forward to see what you guys come up with!
- ronaldx 13y agoIt's not exactly clear what you mean, or you need to be more specific: a curriculum is curated content. Good curriculums are covering over a lot of poor teaching. Writing a good curriculum is hard and it's exceptionally difficult to do that as a lone teacher for a novel course. The results will be variable, and this is where you will the very most awful courses.
- brianpmarks 13y agoI'd say in a situation where a good curriculum exists, teachers need to take the role of coach and motivator. I couldn't agree more about the difficulty in creating a good curriculum. The big question in our minds becomes whether or not a decentralized and distributed system can create great curricula and reduce the pressure on that lone teacher. I believe the answer is yes and with such a system we end up with better courses.
- gravity13 13y agoIt was more a comment on teachers and their currently established ways.