Atlantis Learning Community Executive Summary Initiative Provide the best flexible, lifelong learning platform through the use of 21st Century technologies. Mission Encourage collaboration Facilitate interoperability Promote best practices for using distributed...
Giving Away Knowledge for Free and Only Charging for Knowledge Assessment Is An Online Learning Model Validated by Latest Coursera Moves
A recent move by Coursera, one of the largest Online education providers, validates a new online learning model where knowledge is given away for free, but assessment is paid for. The answer is to separate Knowledge acquisition from knowledge assessment. Essentially...
3 Learning Steps
Step one: gain a complete understanding of the natural laws that govern the thing you are trying to learn. Step two: gain a complete understanding of our own capabilities, aptitudes, skills, and talents for the thing you are trying to learn. Step three: implement...
Atlantis Learning Community Flips the Traditional Educational Models
Traditional Adult Education has it backwards. Today, we start by paying for a class ($2,000+). Then we read the book or listen to the expert. Finally, we take the assessment. This process should be flipped. We should start with a "FREE" high level assessment. Then...
Education for Life might be possible if it is Subscription based, say 2 Wharton Profs. I agree. And I add to that idea.
I agree with two Wharton Professors; education should be Subscription based. That is the best way to stimulate "Education for Life." And I would add that the various levels of subscription should depend on the amount of effort on the part of the Faculty and...
An Introduction to the School of Open
Every generation since the beginning of human existence has passed its value system, principles, methodologies, and skillsets on to the next generation. This passing on of information within cultures has been followed by the development of a systematic approach to...
5 Reasons Why Schools Can be Different Today and Why it is Important
I have been either a student or a teacher for most of my life. The traditional teaching model is for the teacher to stand in front of the class and work their way though a "curriculum." And in most cases, I find it mind-numbingly boring for both the teachers and...
10 OpenCourseWare Sites for a Free Education
1. MIT While not the first university to adopt OpenCourseWare (OCW), MIT's initiative started the movement in 2002. Many other universities followed suit. Still one of the best OCW programs out there, MIT offers materials from 2,150 courses in business, engineering,...