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From e-learning to m-learning: Open education's next move

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"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."?U.S. Senator Kent Conrad, 2004 I spent seventeen years working in higher education, both as a campus technology leader and as an adjunct professor. Today, I continue as an adjunct professor. I know firsthand that educational technology is invaluable to the teaching and learning mission of universities—and that it changes at a rapid pace. read more

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Quoting:Even after education fully adopts m[obile]-learning, change will continue. Students won't stop discovering new ways of learning, and they'll demand those new methods from their institutions. We will move beyond m-learning to new modes we have yet to uncover. That's the reality of educational technology.
Which hearkens back to Emerson:
Quoting:Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself.
And I'm pretty sure there's a quote from Sun Tzu suggesting the same thing. I'm just too lazy ATM to find it.

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