There is a crack ...
Is the industrial model of education finally cracking?
Donald Clark says:
My suspicion is that the web has done more for pedagogy in the last five years than the entire output of academic educational departments and other institutions in the last fifty years.
I agree and still feel that Google is one of the most effective, and cheapest, learning management systems on th eWeb.
John Robb forecasts a decrease in lectures, more just-in-time information, and an increase in online collaboration for learning. He also sees a large drop in enrolment at traditional universities, because the bubble has burst.
The result of these innovations creates a highly productive educational system that produces high quality graduates at a small fraction (an order of magnitude less) of the current costs. Decentralization via online education also results in massive STEMI [Space, Time, Energy, Mass, Information] compression for a given unit of instruction and the educational platform created enables a level of flexibility and renewal needed to meet the challenges of a rapidly mutating global economy.
I think that this change cannot come soon enough, as our educational institutions need to prepare graduates for a highly complex world.
At MIT, the lecture has been replaced with technology enhanced active learning:
“M.I.T. students are very busy,” Professor Belcher said. “They see the lecture as dispensable, that is that they can get it out of a book more efficiently than getting up, getting dressed and going to lecture.”
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in (Leonard Cohen)