Has the age of virtual education begun? Techcast, the online think tank on technology in the future, has an interesting note on this here
Once anyone with an Internet connection can get access to free information, what will be the role of the educator? Of course, education isn't synonymous with information access.
The educator facilitates learning, which is not just the accumulation of facts, but the synthesis and application to particular contexts and the agility to shift thinking when change is sensed - being able to figure out what course of action to choose from the many possible and impossible - to escape into understanding, as Marshall McLuhan put it. The adaptive citizen In an increasingly dynamic and complex world will know what, why, and how, and will judge both facts (what is) and value (what should be). Geoffrey Vickers is a must read on this crucial capability of citizens. Read more here and here. The Appreciative System is an important and neglected idea.
The Techcast website has a virtual education forecast - what do you think will and should happen?
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