Totally agree - it's tricky to balance openness and community with the need for subjectivity and fairness. Humans, by and large, strive for the easy option and it seems inevitable that one day everything important in life will be rated using nothing more complex than a Facebook "Like".
We are seeing a rise in sharing resources between universities and schools, educational websites for sharing experiences and social media connecting students and teachers alike - all demonstrate a gradual shift to a more open and flexible approach to education. In the future I can imagine students signing up for some of their courses to be online only, using material from a school hundreds (or thousands) of miles away and video conference tutor sessions. No reason why a student in the UK cannot attend a local university for 80% of his classes and the other 20% coming from Stanford, Cambridge or NYU
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Totally agree - it's tricky to balance openness and community with the need for subjectivity and fairness. Humans, by and large, strive for the easy option and it seems inevitable that one day everything important in life will be rated using nothing more complex than a Facebook "Like".
We are seeing a rise in sharing resources between universities and schools, educational websites for sharing experiences and social media connecting students and teachers alike - all demonstrate a gradual shift to a more open and flexible approach to education. In the future I can imagine students signing up for some of their courses to be online only, using material from a school hundreds (or thousands) of miles away and video conference tutor sessions. No reason why a student in the UK cannot attend a local university for 80% of his classes and the other 20% coming from Stanford, Cambridge or NYU