Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Online university skips class to be more accessible

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

The show in a nutshell (transcript is below video): "Almost all of online education today is still based on the credit hour and the course. We don't have any courses, and we don't have any credit hours, but we have 120 competencies, and you can master those as fast as you like, or as slow. The thing that we don't care very much about is time. And that is such a fundamental reversal of the basic structure of higher education."

Today: 0 Total: 1103 [Direct link] [Share]

Image from the website
View full size


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: Apr 23, 2024 8:27 p.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes