By Audrey Watters, Read Write Web
“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world,” Bill Gates said at the recent Techonomy conference, arguing that online education will be “better than any single university.” Gates’s timeline might be debatable – could be ten years, five years, three years, now – as is his contention that the widespread availability of online lectures means we can supplant a brick-and-mortar school. But there’s little doubt that more and more learning experiences and learning resources are available online. And more and more students, including Gates himself, are pursuing their coursework via the Internet. But online learning is only half the picture. And while that may in itself change how we think of education, the other half is online teaching. How will Web technologies alter how we teach, what we teach, and who teaches?
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