MOOCs, sensors, apps and games: The revolution in education innovation

Washington Post, March 29, 2013. By Vivek Wadhwa, 

Altaf Qadri/AP - Carol Worthman, left, a professor of
anthropology at Emory's Laboratory for Comparative
Human Biology, helps Tibetan Buddhist monks at a
classroom of an educational complex in Sarah, India
on June 7, 2012.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been touted by some as the breakthrough that will transform education. Top universities such as MIT, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley are scrambling to make their lectures available online. Gov. Jerry described one such program — a trial effort between online course platform Udacity and San Jose State University — as being “about our society, our future and how we can all improve our skills, how we can exercise our imagination.”
Brown (D-Calif.)

Brown is right, but today’s online courses are just a baby step forward on education’s path to transformation, particularly early childhood education. Khan Academy founder Salman Khan will likely be seen in the near future as the modern-day equivalent of the radio star who first appeared on television, microphone in hand. . . . read rest of the article