Via Spartacus today comes a link to this longish presentation encouraging readers to think beyond the old paradigm (when the telegraph was introduced the Pony Express reposed by getting faster horses) and toward what is enabled with online learning, beginning with personalization. "As long as we continue to replicate traditional approaches online—and continue to treat all students as if they were the same—we will once again find the "no significant difference" phenomenon vis-à -vis quality, and we will make only a negligible dent in the access problem rather than taking full advantage of the networked environment." This is pretty much my position as well. One thing I like about the paper is that it not only describes some key innovations in learning, it points to cases where these innovations are being practiced successfully. Recommended.
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