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Linked here by my mother, gaiagarden.
The only problem I have with this is that too many of the major content providers are just re-packaging instructor led content into a "digital" format. Long videos of an instructor (now completely non-interactive!), reading assignments via blackboard, and on and on.
Where the real interesting revolution is happening is in KhanAcademy and Assistments and other programs that are actually starting to completely re-think education and say "how can we educate using the power of computation" rather than "how can we move our education from a physical space to a digital space".
The former will change the world. The latter just makes a few things a bit cheaper.
Indeed! I wholeheartedly agree w/you. I currently spend a good amount of time rethinking these very things, striving to engineer material that's engaging and interactive, employing web 2.0 tools, flipping my classroom...but I hit the wall w/our college, especially the bookstore and old guard, who do not even want to accept ebooks! I use blogs, vlogs, podcasts and Prezi, but I know that these are not enough. I regret that much of the surge in online enrollment is just another ploy to cut costs. As time goes by, I can only hope the true pioneers in distance ed will outdistance the bean counters.
Good word. Thanks for sharing.
Hey, Deja. I hope your first week went well.
I suppose I see this greater emphasis on what is really not "better" education but "more efficient" education at the college level as really begging a question: Maybe we would not have to worry as much about scaling up the delivery of content due to increased demand for a college education if we invested more in making high school what it once was, not so long ago: a place that prepared most people for good-paying jobs of the very sort that most of our school's students are hoping to land eventually. Not that high school should just become a big ol' voc-ed school--it should be more than that--but neither do I want to see even our humble community college perceived as that solely, either . . . but the graphs you posted clearly imply (at least to me) that such is rapidly becoming the fate of the B.A. I get the feeling that if high school were more substantive, we at our CC, at least, wouldn't see a sizable percentage of our students. I know that such a statement is not financial music to the ears of our administration but, well, so be it.
What I'm about to say is in no way a slam against the (effective) use of Web 2.0, just so you know: Delivery of content is obviously important, but it doesn't address at all--indeed, it may be dodging--the basic issue of what high schools and colleges should be doing in the first place.
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