[LINK] World Education

[Tom Worthington]

On 30/01/13 14:36, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> ... new developments in online-education are increasingly and
> significantly "peer empowered" ...

Most of the MOOCs seem to be "watch the video then do the test", which 
is not very peer empowered.

> So that as in real life we learn from each other as much as
> from experts. ...

There is an art to getting students to learn from each other, it is 
called "teaching".


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