News from e-Learning companies
Udacity: Words Into Works: Moving From Passive to Active Learning
Guest Post by Dale StephensAuthor Bio: Dale Stephens was homeschooled and then unschooled. Now he leads UnCollege.org. Perigee/Penguin recently published his first book: "Hacking your Education". What the naysayers of self-directed learning fail to understand is that an education in the 60’s was different than an education today. Today, it’s freer than it’s ever been, and the playing field has leveled, regardless of income. Right now, you have access to practically all of the world’s information – yet, the ramification of this very access still hasn’t grabbed the attention of the public domain yet. Sure, people are talking. But it’s not popular belief – college is still, in many people’s minds, the only way to trail blaze a path to success. Too often we fail to answer a student's question: ‘What am I learning this for?' Yet, let’s be honest: the question of why we are learning what we are learning is one that needs to be…