Quote from “Opinion: Internet and Education — Back to the Future“ — from Vikram Savkar, SVP and Education Markets Director for Nature Publishing Group, a leading global science publisher:
That’s the promise of the Internet, which excels above all else at scale: scale of information, social interactions, geographic reach. But while there is seemingly nothing in education that isn’t migrating online — bookstores, labs, classrooms, field trips — not all of the Internet-driven attempts at innovation have equal merit. The acid test I apply to every new initiative is: to what extent does it bring us closer to the old system of individualized, personal, expert instruction, except with scale? (emphasis DSC)