Size Isn't Everything. For academe's future, think mash-ups not MOOC's

Artículo en The Chronicle of Higher Education. La autora (Cathy N. Davidson) analiza los puntos de vista sobre la "revolución de la educación" expuestos en sendos números recientes de las revistas Forbes y Wired. Vía @jordi_a.

"Educational reform" is also on the lips of many college presidents and policy makers these days. However, I worry that, for many of them, reform is less about learning than about new sources of revenue. Too often, their idea is less like the vision presented in Wired UK and more like the one in Forbes.
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Forbes may see an investment opportunity for profit-based online educational companies. But there is also an investment opportunity for any educator (with or without degree) to rethink learning top to bottom, inside out. We have a potential for a learning mash-up of the loftiest, most creative, learner-centered kind. Whether we are talking about Khan's millions of learners who have a handful of teachers or Ito's billions of teachers learning from one another, the idea that we educators don't have to force education, that people like to learn if there is something worth learning, is the gold mine for the digital age offered by the glossy promises made by these two popular magazines.