Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review
© 2008 John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler. Text illustrations © 2008 Susan E. Haviland. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 1 (January/February 2008): 16–32 John Seely Brown and Richard P. John Seely Brown is a Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at the University of Southern California (USC) and Independent Co-Chairman of a New Deloitte Research Center. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page. More than one-third of the world’s population is under 20. —Sir John Daniel, 1996 The world has become increasingly “flat,†as Tom Friedman has shown. If access to higher education is a necessary element in expanding economic prosperity and improving the quality of life, then we need to address the problem of the growing global demand for education, as identified by Sir John Daniel.3 Compounding this challenge of demand from college-age students is the fact that the world is changing at an ever-faster pace. Social Learning vs.
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EdX: Harvard's New Domain | FM
On May 2, YouTube user “EdXOnline” uploaded a video entitled “edX: The Future of Online Education is Now.” The video, a two and a half minute trailer for the $60 million open source online education platform jointly overseen by Harvard and MIT, hit over 150,000 views within weeks. In the video’s opening statement, L. Rafael Reif, President (then Provost) of MIT describes the project in these terms: “so novel,” “so new,” “so different,”“very exciting,” “very scary,” and “potentially disruptive.” Behind these comments, instrumental music plays—the kind you would expect to inspire a younger generation, and more non-profit anthem than superhero theme song. The possibly disruptive implications of edX have been of particular interest to media outlets and educational commentators, inspiring evocative headlines like“Online Classes Cut Costs, But Do They Dilute Brands?” The edX initiative stands to join the ranks of major MOOCs like Coursera and Udacity. James T. Monika A.
