Online Learning Update

November 24, 2012

Online Learning: The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 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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