Free Online Courses for All: An Effective and Sustainable Education Model?

See on Scoop.itMDG Sustainable Education
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The idea of free online education and degrees has also garnered skepticism along with enthusiasm. Experts are concerned about the financial sustainability of such a purely non-profit model, and it seems that no clear answer is available, other than to charge students modest fees for certain aspects of their education.

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Web 4.0!

Oh, my God! Why am I so surprised?! Isn’t it expected? Nova made an excellent presentation on the future of the Web.

What can we, as educators, do? What about the curriculum we are supposed to follow? Instead of trying to implement such ideas, it seems we are still copying with the basic concepts such as TAPCK . The life is going on.

Or …

Should we start thinking how we are going to teach the the world to machines not to students?


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What are we or what are we going to be?

John Moravec Wrote:

“A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge worker –that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere.”

Exactly, is it already true that for a knowledge worker a coffee shop is an office like any other place in the world or it is yet to become the truth? Not yet, I guess. We are still in the 2.0. not only technology wise but still knowledge wise.

Let’ s discuss it.