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1. How the Internet
is Revolutionizing
Education
Made by
Olia Voronchagina
and
Alexandr Kapustkin

2. • April 2001:Charles M. Vest announced that the university would
make its materials for all its courses freely available on the
Internet
• April 2006, UC Berkeley announced its plan to put complete
academic courses on Apple’s iTunes U
• October 2007, the school launched UC Berkeley on YouTube
“Learning is not a product of schooling
but the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
Albert Einstein
The school has had well
over 120 million downloads
since first sharing videos
online

3. Benjamin Hubbard, the Manager of Webca
Reasons why faculty should
publish lectures online:• For students to have access
to materials
• For cultivating a really great
affinity for a public university
• For providing educational resources all over the world
“It’s so important that we recognize as a public institution
that this is something people value greatly and has great value for us too”

4. The Web has unlocked the
keys to a worldwide virtual
school, potentially leveling
the playing field for students
around the world

5. Knowledge should be open to all to both use and contribute to.
It’s this intuitive philosophy that forms the base of The Open
Education Movement, which has been gaining momentum since
2006, the same year Dr. Dan Colman, launched Open Culture.
It is the greatest free cultural and educational media website, it
was edited by Colman.
Open Culture
“I’m trying to bring the best good ideas to the rest of the w
There currently exists too much of a
between the university world and the general pu
Dr. Dan Colman

6. • it acts as a portal, collecting external
links so users are able to access
materials directly from the distributor
The site has two dimensions:
• it includes blog-style content with
2-3 posts a day of handpicked
media bites

7. Open Culture features over 350
courses in its collection: links to
epic TED Talks, over 380 high
quality streams of classic movies
and tens of thousands of hours
of audio book material

8. It is an online collection featuring over 2,100 educational videos
ranging in intensity from 1+1=2 to college level calculus and physics.
It includes an important recording feature; every time you work on a
problem or watch a video, the site
remembers what you’ve learned and
where you’re spending your time.
Khan Academy

9. It is working its way up to being the Hulu of academic videos
and courses.
Academic Earth features the videos on their site, as opposed to
pushing you directly to iTunes if it’s available.
Academic Earth

10. John Britton spent his first year at RPI studying nuclear
engineering, then switched to computer science. He spent the
next year in Spain learning the local language and customs,
he spent another year abroad in China; 3 months in Beijing
and 9 months in Hong Kong. At the end of it all, with one
semester left, he dropped out. He now has $60,000 in loans.
P2PU
“I don’t like school. It’s why I’m
working on starting my own”
John Britton

11. Britton now works with the founders
of P2PU, Philipp Schmidt,
Delia Browne, Stian Haklev,
Neeru Paharia and Joel Thierstein
P2PU started in 2008 and launched its first 6 peer-based, free
courses on 09/09/09. The courses had 15-20 people enrolled for 6
weeks. Each subsequent cycle, the number of courses nearly
doubled. The most recent, 4th cycle had 60 courses with 20
people in each course. P2PU had to turn down nearly 17,000
additional people who applied.

12. Skillshare is a community
marketplace that enables users to
learn anything from anyone. The
founder of it is Michael
Karnjanaprakorn
Skillshare
“Human communities depend upon a
diversity of talent not a singular
conception of ability.” Sir Ken Robinson

13. Scitable
It is a free science social network with a peer-reviewed on
library built on top of it. The network, which launched in
2009, is a product of the Nature Publishing Group, one of
the largest, most prestigious science publishers in the
world. It’s dedicated to encouraging students to take part
in science education and science in general,
which is a huge problem today.

14. Skype’s Role
”We created Skype in the Classroom to help like-minded
teachers collaborate on projects and share resources. Skype can
connect children globally for shared learning experiences and is
low-cost and simple to use”
Jacqueline Botterill
Skype’s global platform and massive user adoption makes it one
of the most influential technologies in changing the reach of
education.
Jacqueline Botterill leads Skype’s CSR (corporate/social
responsibility) initiatives for Skype in Europe. Skype in the
Classroom, which launched
March 30th, 2010, is one of the
company’s first forays into
the education sphere.

15. Teach the World Online is using Skype to give young
students in Haiti and Cambodia access to English teachers.
The News Literacy Program is also using Skype so
journalists can give guest lectures to students all over the
world on how to sort fact from fiction in the digital age. At
the moment, Skype is speaking with a number of different
organizations that are trying to level the playing field of
access to education.

16. But can the Internet
really replace higher
education?Education is a bubble in a classic sense
Education is basically extremely overpriced
If you borrowed money and went to a
college where the education didn’t
create any value, that is potentially
a really big mistake Peter Thiel
Education is going to move away from antiquated
accreditation systems

17. Likewise, innovators such
as John Britton, Sir Ken
Robinson and Mike K of
Skillshare, see the future
of education as something
of a necessary revolution,
thriving on the powers of

18. “I think courses on the Internet are a great way
to continue learning and to acquire new
information and new knowledge, but they only
partially address furthering education. An
education is more than just passively listening
to lectures.”Dr. Dan Colman, Editor of Open Cultur
The Internet alone won’t be able to replace
higher education. We need a better integration
between the videos we’re capturing in the classroom
and the experience learners have when interacting in
a social context. Online, you don’t get that same sort
of feedback.

19. The dogmas of the quiet past,
are inadequate to the stormy
present. The occasion is piled
high with difficulty, and we
must rise — with the occasion
Abraham Lincoln, December 1, 186

20. Thank you for
Your Attention!