World Committee for Lifelong learning (CMA) has posted a new item, The Paradox of Massive Open Online Courses

Inherent then in the celebration of online learning is a paradox. While it is consistent with the liberating access to higher education necessary for lifelong learning, it poses the threat of renewed learner dependence. Teaching and learning are at their best transformative for both the educator and the learner. Technology does not preclude this, in fact if used creatively technology can enhance the experience. But uncritical acceptance of the one-way directional transmission of information may take the learner away from the fulfillment that comes with self-directed awareness and learning.

Reliance on formal schooling confines the parameters within which learning can occur. Lifelong learning enjoys an intellectual heritage that marries Dewey’s progressivism to meet communal ends with the Rogerian quest for intellectual and emotional independence. Used within that framework online learning can indeed further lifelong learning’s ultimate end—freedom to learn.

Source: The EvoLLLution, illuminating the lifelong learning movement

Example of MOOC : Coursera

La salle de classe planétaire

Professeur brillante déçue par l’enseignement classique, Daphne Koller a inventé la « flip education » qui s’appuie sur les vidéos des cours. Un succès.

LE MONDE | 2012/08/09 14:02:35- mis à jour le 2012/08/09 15:06:42

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