2010 Annual Letter from Bill Gates: Online Learning

Self-motivated students can take entire courses on their own. If they want to prove they learned the material to help qualify for a job, a trusted accreditation service independent from any school should be able to verify their abilities.



There is a lot of online material being developed, but it isn’t organized in a way where it is easy to find the best material that fits what you want to do. If you search online for a video on photosynthesis, you get tens of thousands of results, including a lot of student projects. Which one is best for teaching kids of different ages and different pre-existing knowledge? We need a simple way of taking all of the education pieces and organizing them and then rating them in context.

One step that would help is having course standards that break down all of the various things to be learned into a clear framework and connecting the online material to this framework. Over time I think a large community of contributors and reviewers will develop and allow the online material to be easy to access and a crucial resource for all types of education. There will need to be a number of pilots to see how to take this resource and blend it into the classroom experience. I plan to spend a lot of time on this to see what would help get it to critical mass.

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looool, presne taketo som pred par mesiacmi vymyslel :)
ach, ja sarlatan, uz aj kradnem gatesove napady, hanba..
v tejto node mam k tomu poznamky: http://kyberia.sk/id/1858063 (find "curriculum designer")
akurat ze som to vymyslel v jeden vecer vramci asi polhodiny, a s nikym som to nebrainstormoval
takze urcite by sa tam par veci dalo este doladit, v podstate to nejak usmernit podla tych problemov, ktore gates krasne definoval..
ked o 2-3 tyzdne budeme robit ten education brainstorming, tak by sme snad mohli aj toto poriesit, domysliet..
[alebo v podstate by mi stacilo keby to niekto skritizuje, a ja sa uz vynajdem a najdem riesenia]