Posted on 06/01/2012 1:05:59 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Stanford President John Hennessy and Khan Academy founder Salman Khan are coming at online education from very different angles one is an elite institution being shaken up by experiments, the other is a widely loved upstart thats increasingly being used in traditional schools.
In conversation with Walt Mossberg at D10, Hennessy and Khan talked about the future of the education credential; the opportunities for flipped classroom-style education, where class time is spent on collaboration, tutoring and projects; the move away from lectures and toward social media; and the opportunity to provide practical education for kids in a sort of shadow school district, as Khan called it, with classes in computer science, statistics and law.
Heres a highlight reel:
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Yep, he's back!
My oldest did some stuff with them some years ago. I recommend them.
Im an online MBA student. There are some pretty good online school. Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, FIU, USC.. they are actually very challenging and take discipline.
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