Nothing important is done in the field of online learning outside MIT's Media Lab. That, at least, is how this chapter reads. The chapter begins with the idea that learning is not merely information acquisition (aren't you glad you have MIT to tell you this?) and suggests that most people compare online learning with viewing the television. The bulk of the paper is devoted to the author's 'Computer Clubhouses' project. Some of the concluding comments are good, but misdirected. Sure - we should rethink how people learn. But I don't think that combining grades or creating longer class periods really gets at the heart of what technology can bring to education.
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