For such a long article about Education 2.0 it contains surprisingly little information about Education 2.0. All I found is that it’s online, and free of cost (with advertising).
You know what else is already online and free of cost? Khan Academy, Wikipedia, and many educational YouTube channels. If “online” and “free of cost” were sufficient, the educational revolution would already be here (at least in English-speaking countries).
There are many online courses, many of them free, and yet despite the original enthusiasm, they didn’t improve the situation much. Turns out, for most students, if there isn’t someone checking their regular work, they simply won’t work… they will procrastinate as long as possible, then try the first lesson, find out that it is difficult, and give up.
For such a long article about Education 2.0 it contains surprisingly little information about Education 2.0. All I found is that it’s online, and free of cost (with advertising).
You know what else is already online and free of cost? Khan Academy, Wikipedia, and many educational YouTube channels. If “online” and “free of cost” were sufficient, the educational revolution would already be here (at least in English-speaking countries).
There are many online courses, many of them free, and yet despite the original enthusiasm, they didn’t improve the situation much. Turns out, for most students, if there isn’t someone checking their regular work, they simply won’t work… they will procrastinate as long as possible, then try the first lesson, find out that it is difficult, and give up.
Ironically, a week ago we had here a great article about solving exactly this problem: DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise?
So, what you propose is actually already here, and it didn’t help. We can probably do it better, but you didn’t address that part at all.