Educational Technology

November 25, 2012

The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:37 am

By Antonio Regalado, Technology Review

What’s been the single biggest innovation in education? Don’t worry if you come up blank. You’re supposed to. The question is a gambit used by Anant Agarwal, the computer scientist named this year to head edX, a $60 million MIT-Harvard effort to stream a college education over the Web, free, to anyone who wants one. His point: it’s rare to see major technological advances in how people learn. Agarwal believes that education is about to change dramatically. The reason is the power of the Web and its associated data-crunching technologies.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506351/the-most-important-education-technology-in-200-years/

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