The Second Education Revolution

I believed the second education revolution will be a technological one. That is why I invested time and money in an e-learning technology start up. I was wrong. Technology does not make for revolutions, people do. The second education revolution is happening because the best teachers are making it happen. Yes they are using e-learning technology to hold massive online classes. But that is only a small part of the revolution. At the core of the revolution is the passion that the best teachers bring to their profession, their insights into the classical processes of education and learning and the skills that they bring to discovering and refining new processes of teaching and learning. To get a up close view of the passion, the insights and the skills take a look at this TED talk by Coursera (www.coursera.org) co-founder Daphne Koller. I visited Coursera. I found a whole lifetime worth of courses. It took me two minutes to register for one on Game Theory and now I await my taste of the second education revolution. See you there. . In case the embedded video does not play on your device here is a link to Daphne's talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html