If you or your kids have taken an online lesson at the Khan Academy (3,200 video lessons, 168 million views), been enlightened by a TED Talk (1,300 talks, 800 million views), watched a videotaped academic lecture (Academic Earth, Open Courseware Consortium, Open Culture), enrolled in a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course, now being offered by companies like Udacity and a growing list of universities, including M.I.T., Harvard and Stanford),
or simply learned to play guitar, paint a landscape or make a soufflé
via YouTube — then you know that the distribution channels of education
have changed — and that the future of learning is free and open.(Article by David Bornstein)
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Monday, 16 July 2012
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