Education should be a duality!
All web technologies that are now at the peak of popularity can and should be applied to the field of education. Open free hosting for slides, lectures, abstracts, dissertations and other materials should make a real revolution, comparable with the advent of Wikipedia. Commenting options for all materials, thematic educational blogs and freeware testing systems
can transfer technology education to a new level.
As part of the CSIN · RU project, our team will study the applicability of Web 2.0 ideas in the field of university education in computer science. Already, we have a gallery of leading computer scientists, a number of courses have been posted, a thematic blog and a social directory are being maintained.
How do we imagine education 2.0 and what is our plan?
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Goals Our main task is to create an infrastructure that will make educational materials reusable . That is, so that a lecture prepared and read once, can be studied / viewed millions of times. Every day we lose the enormous work of teachers, who, having prepared lecture slides, forget them forever in their home computers . Now only MIT OpenCourseWare is trying to do something like this. We want to do better!
Motivation. Commenting, rating, recommending and free distribution of educational content will create competition between teachers. When the content of competing courses is in sight and it will be possible to compare courses with each other, we will immediately see which university it is worth. Ideally, any competition leads to an improvement in the quality and a fall in the price of the object of competition.
Difficulties First of all, it is necessary to overcome the inertia of the authors of educational materials. It is one thing - a lecture in front of 15 students, another - to hang your (not ideal) slides for all to see. The situation with copyright is not clear either - universities may try to prevent the spread of lectures of their employees.
Business model. At the first stage, the most relevant model is Wikipedia - collecting donations and searching for grants. At the second stage, when technologies have already been created and pilot projects have shown their effectiveness, there will be an opportunity to attract investors. Finally, with the accumulation of a critical mass of content and active users, the project can be sold to one of the largest media companies or go to payback through advertising.
Education 3.0 The idea of the semantic Web - search by meaning. Like other types of content, educational materials are gradually moving from a central gathering point, to a series of competing projects, and finally to a decentralized system of millions of participants. At the last stage, it will be necessary to develop an annotation and metadata format (like RSS for blogs), which will allow conducting educational search and individual selection of educational materials.
CSIN plan. In spring 2007, a free hosting will be opened on the CSIN · RU website for lecture slides and electronic notes. We are also going to launch a system of publications on topical issues (leave or stay, search for grants, the fate of science, business models for education, paid or free). Naturally the forum, personal pages of project participants, tags for all objects on the site, RSS-export of new materials. May Drupal help us!
Feedback. Any further discussion of the concept of "Education 2.0" brings us closer to the future of free education. We need your ideas: how else can Web 2.0 be applied to education? How can I make a CSIN · RU project better? Do you have friends who are allowed to place their slides on our website? How to attract investment in education 2.0?
can transfer technology education to a new level.
As part of the CSIN · RU project, our team will study the applicability of Web 2.0 ideas in the field of university education in computer science. Already, we have a gallery of leading computer scientists, a number of courses have been posted, a thematic blog and a social directory are being maintained.
How do we imagine education 2.0 and what is our plan?
')
Goals Our main task is to create an infrastructure that will make educational materials reusable . That is, so that a lecture prepared and read once, can be studied / viewed millions of times. Every day we lose the enormous work of teachers, who, having prepared lecture slides, forget them forever in their home computers . Now only MIT OpenCourseWare is trying to do something like this. We want to do better!
Motivation. Commenting, rating, recommending and free distribution of educational content will create competition between teachers. When the content of competing courses is in sight and it will be possible to compare courses with each other, we will immediately see which university it is worth. Ideally, any competition leads to an improvement in the quality and a fall in the price of the object of competition.
Difficulties First of all, it is necessary to overcome the inertia of the authors of educational materials. It is one thing - a lecture in front of 15 students, another - to hang your (not ideal) slides for all to see. The situation with copyright is not clear either - universities may try to prevent the spread of lectures of their employees.
Business model. At the first stage, the most relevant model is Wikipedia - collecting donations and searching for grants. At the second stage, when technologies have already been created and pilot projects have shown their effectiveness, there will be an opportunity to attract investors. Finally, with the accumulation of a critical mass of content and active users, the project can be sold to one of the largest media companies or go to payback through advertising.
Education 3.0 The idea of the semantic Web - search by meaning. Like other types of content, educational materials are gradually moving from a central gathering point, to a series of competing projects, and finally to a decentralized system of millions of participants. At the last stage, it will be necessary to develop an annotation and metadata format (like RSS for blogs), which will allow conducting educational search and individual selection of educational materials.
CSIN plan. In spring 2007, a free hosting will be opened on the CSIN · RU website for lecture slides and electronic notes. We are also going to launch a system of publications on topical issues (leave or stay, search for grants, the fate of science, business models for education, paid or free). Naturally the forum, personal pages of project participants, tags for all objects on the site, RSS-export of new materials. May Drupal help us!
Feedback. Any further discussion of the concept of "Education 2.0" brings us closer to the future of free education. We need your ideas: how else can Web 2.0 be applied to education? How can I make a CSIN · RU project better? Do you have friends who are allowed to place their slides on our website? How to attract investment in education 2.0?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/804/
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