Is Brick & Mortar Education Going to be Left in the Dust by Online Learning & Flipped Classrooms?

by Allen Partridge, Adobe Captivate blog

The core of this widespread adoption of online learning resources the panel suggested can in fact be found in the emphasis on ‘learning’ rather than ‘teaching.’ Of course this is hardly a new idea, and hardly something of which mainstream brick-and-mortar educators are unaware. Cognitive theories of education that anchor approaches like Constructivism have been suggested as preferable approaches for many decades. Unfortunately traditional educational institutions, as well as certification bodies and most notably political administrations have long favored didactic instruction (basically drill and kill, lecture-centric approaches to education) because the results of these methods are far simpler to track and report.

http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2012/07/is-brick-mortar-education-going-to-be-left-in-the-dust-by-online-learning-flipped-classrooms.html

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