Kaplan Message – It’s your time…to simply remotely listen?
Faculty and students – what is your perspective on the Kaplan message?
The message states educators have failed you and that a new model of learning is in order. The actor and visuals suggest the solution is largely about remote distance learning – on a train, at home and in your jammies. I get that.
From our perspective, this message leaves 2/3 of the required changes off the table.
What changes?
- How about more open learning? Why not let students and faculty learn and share across classes, programs or heaven forbid different schools?
- How about offering students a voice such they can learn new ways to share and collaborate in a semi-private setting across their virtual class?
- Why note give students the means to link industry and external stakeholders to a classroom? This would facilitate alumni mentoring, project exchanges and downstream recruiting for those that reveal their potential in an open, more transparent way.
Many talented teachers are experimenting with all forms of new tools, methods and teaching practices aimed at stimulating creativity, innovation and new forms of learning. Early adopters of WhyHire.me were brave enough to move forward with our learning materials and supporting technology – we are all learning in an open and transparent way. Dave Donaldson, Jim Kyte and Wendy Threader from Algonquin College. Leighann Neilson from Carleton University. David Johnson and Michael Vourakes from Centennial College. Lyle Wetsch from Memorial University. Francis Gunn and David Martin from the Ted Rogers School of Business. All of these people stared down the traditional barriers to changing how students can learn and explore new forms of collaboration and communication using social media. Kudos to you all!
I went back to the Kaplan web site looking for a means to offer feedback on the video. I was fully expecting to read comments and learn other perspectives about learning 2.0. A basic search for the term blog rendered no results. I found all kinds of great looking material and the means to chat online with a recruiter…but no means to share, learn or discuss.
Since there is no venue for such a dialogue, let’s continue it here.
What do you think is missing in education?
How should it change?
What are the barriers to transforming how we learn?
