Learner
centered environments
Role of
technologies is growing for knowledge management, self and team organization,
process and project management, communication and several of the social media
as informal learning tools. The facilitator facilitates the learner to self learn
and collaborate, participates in all these areas on the side as a guide.
The “one tablet
per child”, “AkashTablet” initiatives are indicating how important it is to
learn by doing – especially using technologies. Standards are key to
conformity. Encouraging entrepreneurial
mindset is to break the conformity where change is much needed.
Khan Academy is
one of the many ventures that is changing the way children do homework and
classwork. NIIT Delhi’s Mitra’s experiments with educating children with no
formal background in the subject, Nicholas Negropante (one laptop per child
initiatives of MIT Media Lab), Hans Rosling ( his famous global population
bubble map, experiments with statistics are changing the way statistics can be
taught using massive data of the world) are just a few ventures happening.
The MIT opencourseware is useful as a “go to
place” for searching and finding how experts in the field think on the subject
you are exploring. I registered with Coursera to find out more about how a
topic like Entrepreneurship is being taught in other universities. How to
learn, how to incorporate such great, high quality, freely available resources
in the curriculum is becoming a challenge for the educators.
