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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Online Learning: Internet and Education -- Back to the Future - MoreVikram Savkar, AOL News
That's the promise of the Internet, which excels above all else at scale: scale of information, social interactions, geographic reach. But while there is seemingly nothing in education that isn't migrating online -- bookstores, labs, classrooms, field trips -- not all of the Internet-driven attempts at innovation have equal merit. The acid test I apply to every new initiative is: to what extent does it bring us closer to the old system of individualized, personal, expert instruction, except with scale? Online tutoring is an example of a promising Internet-driven innovation.
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