Here’s an innocent statement I just can’t let go without commenting on. In a post yesterday (“LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network“) Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch said that “Online education has been booming recently…”
Online education is not a recent innovation. Large-scale corporatisation of education is a recent innovation – if you can call it an innovation. I happen to think that “innovation” carries a far more positive connotation than this financially driven trend deserves.
For as long as the internet has been in existence, forward thinking educators have …