OPEN EDUCATION : REFLECTIONS ON LEARNING NETWORKS
"I never teach my pupils: I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn" - Albert Einstein.
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One of the effects of the abundance of online learning resources is the trend of coming up with new terms to define what we mean by education and even to question what its purpose is.
There are still relics of the Dickensian notion that students are vessels to be filled facts but, thankfully, this is a pedagogy that by and large belongs to the past.
Yet, although we like to think we live in a more enlightened age, the rapid nature of the change over the past two decades continues to be hard to assimilate.
Openness implies accessibility and an accommodating attitude so, all things being equal, these should be good times for teachers and students, life-long or otherwise.
So why do I feel so much doubt and uncertainty? Shouldn’t my mood be more celebratory? Continue reading
