Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education…again
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Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education…again
What if new technologies could allow us to understand the varied backgrounds, goals, and learning styles of our students—and provide educational material customized to their unique needs? What if we could deliver education to students via on-demand platforms that allowed them to study whenever, wherever, and whatever they desired, instead of requir... See more
Michael D. Smith • Are Universities Going the Way of CDs and Cable TV?
I isn’t ready to be an entrepreneur, but its ideation-prototype-interview cycle does in a couple of seconds what takes my students months to do. AI isn’t ready to build educational games without errors, but it is able to instantly make an interactive simulation that explains a difficult concept, even if some nuance is missing
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
We live in an era where a motivated 12-year-old can learn the basics of timber framing, semiconductor design, or how to bake bread that would rival world-class bakeries. They can master nearly any mechanical system or any number of programming or artistic vocations, even if no mentor lives nearby. The limit is no longer some teacher or institution
... See moreSimon Sarris • School Is Not Enough
MOOCs a “budding revolution in global online higher education” and suggested that the online courses had the potential to “unlock a billion more brains to solve the world’s biggest problems.”