Re:Why Teachers Won't Be Replaced By Software
by ronaldx on Friday February 14, 2014 @06:50PM
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It's not exactly clear what you mean, or you need to be more specific: a curriculum is curated content.
Good curriculums are covering over a lot of poor teaching.
Writing a good curriculum is hard and it's exceptionally difficult to do that as a lone teacher for a novel course. The results will be variable, and this is where you will the very most awful courses.
Re:Why Teachers Won't Be Replaced By Software
by brianpmarks on Friday February 14, 2014 @08:26PM
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I'd say in a situation where a good curriculum exists, teachers need to take the role of coach and motivator.
I couldn't agree more about the difficulty in creating a good curriculum. The big question in our minds becomes whether or not a decentralized and distributed system can create great curricula and reduce the pressure on that lone teacher. I believe the answer is yes and with such a system we end up with better courses.
|| What is Open Teaching?
|| Open teaching means teaching using open materials and providing open access to those materials on the internet.
I gotta say I agree, I would love to see a future where the teachers are curating the content rather than the assigned curriculum. But those bad teachers, they've really come to rely on their curriculums.
P.S. looking forward to see what you guys come up with!