{"id":44766,"date":"2014-02-15T13:19:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T18:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=44766"},"modified":"2014-02-15T13:19:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T18:19:47","slug":"how-mit-plans-to-educate-a-billion-people-by-2021-forbes-com-stephen-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/02\/15\/how-mit-plans-to-educate-a-billion-people-by-2021-forbes-com-stephen-carson\/","title":{"rendered":"How MIT plans to educate a billion people by 2021 [forbes.com, Stephen Carson]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/skollworldforum\/2014\/02\/12\/how-mit-plans-to-educate-a-billion-people-by-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How MIT plans to educate a billion people by 2021<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; from forbes.com, an interview with Stephen Carson<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MIT OpenCourseWare\u2019s goal for the next decade is to increase our reach to a billion minds. By 2021 we want to be\u00a0the\u00a0resource to bridge the global gap between human potential and opportunity, so that motivated people everywhere can improve their lives\u00a0and change the world.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we have identified four focus areas with the potential to help us reach our goal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Sharing OpenCourseWare<\/b>: making content easy to find and adaptable \u2013 for example, through mobile optimization.<\/li>\n<li><b>Serving key audiences:\u00a0<\/b>Through the introduction of new courses and customization to meet the needs of people across a wide range of cultures and backgrounds.<\/li>\n<li><b>Creating open learning communities:\u00a0<\/b>Increasing connectivity between learners, allowing them to interact with one another to increase understanding of the material.<\/li>\n<li><b>Empowering educators worldwide:\u00a0<\/b>Enable educators to bring OpenCourseWare materials into classrooms and to those who don\u2019t have internet access. Provide the educators with the tools that they need to serve students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How MIT plans to educate a billion people by 2021 &#8211; from forbes.com, an interview with Stephen Carson Excerpt: MIT OpenCourseWare\u2019s goal for the next decade is to increase our reach to a billion minds. By 2021 we want to be\u00a0the\u00a0resource to bridge the global gap between human potential and opportunity, so that motivated people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,343,32,37,95,62,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-education","category-education-technology","category-future","category-global-globalization","category-online-learning","category-open-courseware-and-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44767,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766\/revisions\/44767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}