Khan Academy: The Future of Education?

[Cindy Harper]

Last year, I believe it was, I contacted someone at the federal Dept. of
Education to see if there is any action toward forming a clearinghouse of
course listings/schedules/costs for online learning offered by higher ed
institutions.  I think this is something the library/education community
should be asking for.  If schools who posted courses were required to
report using a standard XML structure, and somebody built the data engine,
it seems within reach. but the question is - who will pay for it?  I
suspect that those who offer online education would not necessarily favor
it, because they would rather invest in advertising specific to their
courses.  The ED.gov respondent siad that it has been considered, but with
funding such as it is.  Is this a cooperative venture that the higher ed
community can build itself? EDUCAUSE?

Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
Colgate University Libraries
charper at colgate.edu
315-228-7363



On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Amy Drayer <amostrom at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Gerry et al:
>
> Khan is pretty good, but I'm excited about the "true" online classes
> Stanford, MIT, and Udacity are experimenting with:
> http://www.class-central.com/
>
> Great resources for sure!  I plan to highlight these learning
> opportunities on the library Web site.
>
> In peace,
>
> Amy M. Drayer
> Web & Systems Librarian
>
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:31 PM, McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] wrote:
>
> *** Apologies for Receipt of Duplicate Postings ***
>
>
> Colleagues/
>
>
> In case you missed the 60 Minutes segment on Sunday ...
>
> Khan Academy: The Future of Education? > Flipped Classroom
>
> With the backing of Gates and Google, Khan Academy and its free online
> educational videos are moving into the classroom and across the world.
> Their goal: to revolutionize how we teach and learn. Sanjay Gupta reports.
>
> *http://bit.ly/zRhBOI*
> **
> /Gerry
>
> Gerry McKiernan
> Associate Professor
> and
> Science and Technology Librarian
> Iowa State University
> 152 Parks Library
> Ames IA 50011
>
> *http://www.digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/*
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