Tony Bates's proposal has three parts: a billion dollars "for every instructor to receive at least basic training in modern teaching methods within five years," $20 million a year for "providing sufficient high quality OER for Canadian post-secondary education," and $250K per year to help the the Canadian Digital Learning Research Association (CDLRA) track the move to online learning. But here's my concern. Bates writes (and I agree) "the need is for people with 'transversal', high level intellectual skills that will allow them to adapt and change as the work-place changes." The question, then, is whether university professors (who have over the last 20 years shown virtually no interest) are the right people to provide this kind of learning? Let's rethink this model before we spend a billion dollars on it.
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