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| May 2, 2019

Read by Tony Bates

What is the purpose of online learning? Online learning has been hitting the headlines recently: - the Ontario government requiring every high school student to take four online courses out of the 30 high school credits required for an Ontario high school diploma; - claims that online learning is not appropriate for low income and under-represented minorities - Kevin Carey’s rant about OPMs and the creeping capitalist takeover of (American) higher education I have found myself being asked by the media to comment on all these, but underlying each of my responses has been my considerable unease about the gap between some of the claims and the reality on the ground, and above all not knowing the possible motives behind some of the developments we have been seeing. Each of these developments raises questions about the perceived purpose of online or digital learning. I examine this through three blog posts: - mandatory online courses in Ontario high schools: good or bad strategy? - can online learning dramatically reduce the costs of higher education and reduce inequalities in the system? - beyond access: rethinking the purpose of online learning

📜 Read “Rethinking the purpose of online learning: 1. Ontario’s k-12 initiative”

by Tony Bates