How, exactly, will education look in 30 years? "I wish I had a crystal ball," [Udacity founder, Sebastian] Thrun says. But technology is enabling educators -- not to mention Silicon Valley entrepreneurs -- to personalize education and scale it up:
Classes will involve a sequence of increasingly more challenging exercises and quizzes aimed at helping students master a particular concept or skill.
A single class might enroll tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of students, but "there will be no more one-size-fits-all," Thrun says. "Education will respond to you."
Grades -- what Thrun calls "the failure of the education system" -- won't exist. Rather, students will take as much or as little time as they need to demonstrate mastery of a particular skill or concept.
Instruction will be free, but related services might involve a fee. Among those are certification and exams, which will be conducted separately from the learning process.
Read the rest at USA Today.
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