Let's map out the core dilemma that produces the idea (quoting from the text):
- good-quality teaching should be central to good educational provision, and most especially for the education of young children
- there is a massive shortage of good-quality teachers across the developing world
OK, so do MOOCs here here? Maybe, but John Connell writes, "I, for one, am less sure that the course-ness of the concept has to be a given.... so many of them have no access to good teaching, I can't but help wonder how the MOOC might be taken, reshaped, and made into something that could begin to ameliorate some of the worst effects of that generally awful situation. I have problems with this article because it really misconstrues MOOCs as "a linear, structured, comprehensible process in which ideas or concepts or information are introduced, discussed, dissected," etc. I get what he wants - we've been talking about it here for years under the heading 'personal learning environment'. But I think he still wants it 'supervised' and 'safe' - hence, 'classroom'.
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