It not only meets the needs for lifelong learning and constant renewal of skills, but it also lowers the inequalities in access to knowledge, inequalities that are related to geographical or financial background, disabilities, socio-cultural context, age or gender.ĭifferent initiatives have so far leveraged the power of technology to share knowledge: It is certain that technology has offered new perspectives-learning can now move to the home, at each person’s pace, and surely we will all transition from books to tablets in a few years. This new wave of MOOCs ( Massive Online Open Course) is constantly in the news and journalists are asking “Has the future of college moved online?” Technology in education
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Along with offering online courses, these institutions use this opportunity to research how people learn and how technology transforms learning.Īdditionally, Stanford is currently offering popular online engineering classes free of charge. The world’s most prestigious universities have taken advantage of the opportunity to be among the first ones to deliver their renowned curriculum online: Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have partnered together to create EdX, their own interactive online open education courses. And we can’t forget Udacity, which also aims at bringing “university-level education to the masses”. They are partnering with 33 top universities in the world and are proposing to “Take the world’s best courses, online, for free.” The start-up raised $16 million last year to offer the best online education worldwide for free. There is also Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company based in Mountain View, CA.
One of the best examples is Shai Reshef’s University of the People, the world’s first tuition-free online university dedicated to the democratization of higher education. In his book, “ The One World School House”, Salman Khan, the Founder of Khan Academy, one of the most famous free online education videos website says: “Technology-enhanced teaching and learning is our best chance for an affordable and equitable educational future.” The democratization of education is in march. How can we prevent students from getting bored? How can we prevent school drop-outs from classes of one-size-fits-all?Īnd above all, how do we harness the technology to give access to education to the 80% of youth who currently will not have a highschool diploma? Some even question the relevance of traditional higher education. Where we once needed obedient uniform soldiers, we are now looking for witty and dynamic individuals. In a few minutes of caustic British humor and explicit drawings, we understood how the current education system has been created to answer the standardized needs of the industrial revolution but can no longer meet the flexibility and diversity needed in today’s work market. It all started with the famous Ken Robinson talk explaining how schools kill creativity.
The Education Revolution by Aurelie Salvaire What is the education revolution and what does technology have to do with it?
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