Education is changing at high speed, some personal observations
Let me start with saying i am no expert or professional with regard to education & the internet. I am not telling anything new. Just a parent of two daughters of 6 and 8 who is wondering about the amazing speed at which i see education changing. And as this is an exponential development, the current speed of change is only a small sign of things to come. The first development i noticed was of what is called "Massive Open Online Courses" or MOOC's for short ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course ) Both the number and quality of courses is growing at a rapid pace. Regardless whether they will fully replace traditional forms of education or not, it will fundamentally change university education as we know it. Add to that the further developing forms of videocommunication like Google Hangouts and you get the picture. For me personally it's not really practical to follow a MOOC's, simply no time available because of work. For myself i found som...