*De-Classifying Education:*
How entrepreneurs are expanding the boundaries of global learning beyond the classroom.
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*PANELISTS: Salman Khan, Founder of Khan Academy*
Are we on the threshold of Class-less Education?...
[read more] *De-Classifying Education:*
How entrepreneurs are expanding the boundaries of global learning beyond the classroom.
*Please note that RSVPing in Facebook does NOT register you for the event.*
*REGISTER here:
http://www.vlab.org/store.html?event_id=364*
*MORE INFO on event:
http://bit.ly/cuswsk*
*PANELISTS: Salman Khan, Founder of Khan Academy*
Are we on the threshold of Class-less Education? Entrepreneurs are introducing technologies that provide a platform for social networks, user-focused learning, and real-time participation. Will this disruption occur from the bottom up or top down? While Venture Capitalists are betting on higher institutions, well-known philanthropists are looking at global K-12 education.
Classrooms in the near future might employ virtual, open-sourced textbooks that can morph to the needs of the user. Study groups, social networking and a host of virtual communities could be coalescing around the need for inexpensive and universally available education. All this is occurring as our existing educational institutions are struggling to maintain the quality of their education. Although few dispute the quality of our highest centers of learning, increasingly the stratospheric costs of post-high school education makes it attainable only by the very few.
The promise of borderless, broadly available education could open the education portal to students of all ages, ethnicities, geographies, and economic strata. Aspiring students from Timbuktu to East Palo Alto could have access to great minds.
Will old educational monopolies crumble like aging textbooks? Will free virtual textbooks, remote learning, and flexible classes challenge the best "legacy" schools in the world? Which technologies will triumph? On November 16, we will convene a panel of education entrepreneurs, visionaries, and established defenders of the status quo to discuss disruptive innovations in education.
