Arthur Hanson
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MOOCs Shake Up Indian Education | MIT Technology Review
It looks like a large percentage of India will avoid the grossly over priced and obsolete education model much of the US is locked into. The traditional education system is obsolete, over priced and inefficient. This is but one step in advancing education to an lifetime subscription model tailored to your profession or skill set. This will soon be the only way that one can keep their skill set current what ever their field. Just like many countries essentially skipped wire line phones, much of the developing world will skip the traditional education structure. What we need is a hybrid model of straight online, interactive online and traditional classrooms/labs. Just like all incumbents, many in traditional education will fight to preserve the past at everyone else's expense, especially the tax payer. People always love spending Other People's Money and have no compunction about wasting it, especially on themselves. The tech world can be the leader if it wants to embrace employees that have been creative with their education. In fact in many cases they should make better employees for they have proved that they can work outside the box and work independently. Any opinions or observations welcome. An intelligent population makes a strong country. Israel proves this by having a strong economy with little resources, while being in the center of an area bent on their destruction. Holland and Germany are the other examples. An educated (self, formal, informal) population makes better decisions from personal to business to political decisions. Also educated populations inherently use the latest technology to leverage their resources from natural ones to pure information. A dumbed down population leads to a dumbed down government also, this is why the US should take its drop in educational quality very seriously. Semis are a key ingredient to advancing and distributing education in more ways than almost any single factor for they automate information and knowledge.
It looks like a large percentage of India will avoid the grossly over priced and obsolete education model much of the US is locked into. The traditional education system is obsolete, over priced and inefficient. This is but one step in advancing education to an lifetime subscription model tailored to your profession or skill set. This will soon be the only way that one can keep their skill set current what ever their field. Just like many countries essentially skipped wire line phones, much of the developing world will skip the traditional education structure. What we need is a hybrid model of straight online, interactive online and traditional classrooms/labs. Just like all incumbents, many in traditional education will fight to preserve the past at everyone else's expense, especially the tax payer. People always love spending Other People's Money and have no compunction about wasting it, especially on themselves. The tech world can be the leader if it wants to embrace employees that have been creative with their education. In fact in many cases they should make better employees for they have proved that they can work outside the box and work independently. Any opinions or observations welcome. An intelligent population makes a strong country. Israel proves this by having a strong economy with little resources, while being in the center of an area bent on their destruction. Holland and Germany are the other examples. An educated (self, formal, informal) population makes better decisions from personal to business to political decisions. Also educated populations inherently use the latest technology to leverage their resources from natural ones to pure information. A dumbed down population leads to a dumbed down government also, this is why the US should take its drop in educational quality very seriously. Semis are a key ingredient to advancing and distributing education in more ways than almost any single factor for they automate information and knowledge.
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