| MOOCs To Bring Personalized Learning, Big Changes to K-12, Ed. Professor Predicts |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Lehigh University education professor Scott Garrigan knows firsthand that many educators find massively open online courses, or MOOCs, threatening. \"Imagine every student engaged in every classroom. I would love to do that in my face-to-face classes, and I don\'t know how,\" said Garrigan. \"They\'ve done it. And it annoys me.\" But Garrigan, like a growing number of educators in higher ed, has chosen to embrace the MOOC phenomenon. And with MOOC-like offerings on their way to K-12, high school teachers should get ready to do the same, he said. That means getting ready for: \"Interest-driven learning,\" in which students increasingly get to select their own courses. Exponentially more students with (online) access to the best teachers and instructional materials. A tidal wave of new data that allow teachers to quickly diagnose and address students\' learning weaknesses. And a new emphasis on using that same data to \"evolve instruction\" and change the way teachers go about their work. |
| Source: Education Week (USA) | Published: June 25th, 2013 |
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