Monday 12 March 2012

BBC article on internet education revolution



This is a BBC video article on the internet sparking an educational revolution… ‘Blackboards and textbooks are so old school.’ In contrast to Eric Mazur (an experienced educator behaving as an amateur media communicator), these people strike me as experienced media communicators and new-business people behaving as amateur educators…

‘we really designed what we call a campus…’ - Adam Pritzker – General Assembly Co-Founder

‘students can design their own curricula. Students can figure out what they want to learn, based on their experience, their aspirations, the job they want, what they want to do and then they can go off and create that…’ - Christina Cacioppo – School of Visual Arts, Design co-teacher

‘…students don’t have to do things that they don’t want to do, and not just paper things that they don’t need, things a traditional university would have them do…’ - Christina Cacioppo – School of Visual Arts, Design co-teacher

 ‘diy education offers a wider array of potential experiences. You’re not committing to paying a huge amount of money and to give a huge amount of time to a program which, if you look at the statistics, may not have a definite outcome.’ - Adam Pritzker – General Assembly Co-Founder

 most check out www.udemy.com mentioned in the article…

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