Teaching 2.0 - Doing More with Less

With the institutional resources shrinking and the costs rising, teachers are being asked to do more with less. John Seely Brown explores how technology can help. [12/2008] [Education] [Show ID: 15107]

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Education

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• Teaching
• technology
• learning
• John
• Seely
• Brown

[VideoGameCoupons]

yeabah this is what im talking about

[t3601su]

Improving efficiency is how you do more with less. Ways to do this include 1) match the course structure with the best known ways students learn and retain - which isn't by lecture, it's by doing and if you can, by teaching. 2) Make sure a cource chain - prerequisits to later course - actually prepare students and set them up for success. 3) Match the expense of the course to the students - some need a teacher, others a video, still others only a book. 4) and so on.

[makeiteasyable]

i love this video.

[alliemunsch]

you have an awesome video..thanks for sharing!

[erikis894]

very informative one!



[cwasteson]

Sounds good. In the discussions both students and mentors notice what they have understood and what they need to look more into.

1+1=3 when having good discussions and through that deepen knowledge!

[mnphysicist]

@cwasteson Less might mean 1 master sage on stage, serving hundreds or even thousands of small groups who are then served my mentors. Case in point MIT and Yale's OCW are free... but it is only lectures, no discussion, no assessment, nothing. Rather than trying to replicate an MIT prof as presenter by thousands of classrooms... shift it to mentors to guide discussions, to take on assessment etc. Short of the massive amount of outrage by many, such could dramatically drive down the cost.

[DrDennisonB]

Presenter believes asking the right questions could evoke learning...and says student who form study groups and likely to succeed in life...

Can you collaborate?

Interesting and realistic use of avatars in learning

[Melki]

This is great, you can see rachel botsman's talk at tedtalks its related. You can see that the material is very relevant and enlightening. Despite of what motives, or on what alignment is this presentation is for, this is a great talk. I'm grateful for UC for putting this up.

[cwasteson]

@cwasteson Less? What do you mean with less? It is less expensive to let student learn together with a mentor that only shows herself or himself once in a while than having a very active teacher. But is it better? Why not have both - active teacher that sometimes lecture and sometimes gives problems for their students to solve - that would give more!

I´m sorry about my broken english, I´m from Sweden ... :-)