Today I watched Gardner Campbell‘s brilliant keynote speech for the Open Education conference in Vancouver which he delivered in October 2012.
This was one of the extra resources for week 2 of the mind-expanding E-Learning & Digital Cultures MOOC .
Campbell talks a lot about how what we mean by education and creative thinking. These topics have gotten deeply imbedded, lost or confused as a result of the plethora of open online courses. If you believe the hype, which he doesn’t, these offer a magical panacea to issues like quality, cost and accessibility in Higher Education.
The widespread availability of information (i.e. knowledge) on the Internet could, on the face of it, suggest that the dream of a tailor-made education for all who want it has become real possibility.
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