By KAREN SYMMS GALLAGHER, US News
What troubles me about the open online class splash is the fig leaf that they provide higher ed leaders who appear to be embracing the full promise of online learning while actually doing little more than installing cameras and brighter lighting in the most popular classes. So much more is possible. Many higher ed leaders have yet to fully embrace the challenge and the promise of the digital revolution, because it’s hard. It takes a willingness to rethink how we’ve been teaching since Socrates. It requires a willingness to restructure and re-examine decades, sometimes centuries, of conventional wisdom about how students learn. It requires updating longstanding curriculum to match today’s digital native students.
Most of all, embracing the promise of online learning requires leadership.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/12/12/rethinking-higher-ed-open-online-learning
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