“To dwell on the earlier fads and
disappointments that technology has generated in education would be pedantic.
Innovators like to believe that theirs is the real revolution. But technology
has been about to transform education for a long time. In 1841 the 'inventor of
the blackboard was ranked among the best contributors to learning and science,
if not among the greatest benefactors to mankind'. A century later, in 1940,
the motion picture was hailed the most revolutionary instrument introduced into
education since the printing press. Television was the educational revolution
in 1957. In 1962 it was programmed learning and in 1967 computers. Each was
labelled the most important development since Gutenberg's printing press.”
—Sir John Daniel
Why would the major events
and drivers of change you identified earlier be any different?
What do I think?
Why would online video / open courses be different than the innovations
and expected revolutions of the past?
Open access to education takes the control of who learns
what and when away from the educator and potentially puts it in the hands of
the learner. A learner no longer has to
wait until a course is available, until their teacher thinks they are ready or
they can afford to attend the ‘right’ school.
However, this shift in education depends on the learners taking
ownership and leadership of their own learning, which is something educators
should be promoting and instilling in their learners. The drive for life long learning.
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