Steve Jobs continues to revolutionize education from beyond the grave. The iAuthor function should shake up the exploitative textbook market. Turning a reading packet into a anthology of your authorship just got a lot easier.
http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
Now if someone would develop a platform for teachers to deliver courses online. I am still using an amalgamation of online services to deliver my courses. Moodle requires vast resources and exceptional skills to use, and a company that recognizes this and attempted to help teachers out now founders.
http://www.keytoschool.com/about-us/
Check out the "forum" page, where last I checked it was clogged with complaints regarding reliability issues.
It was brought to my attention that game dynamics (not game theory) might be added to online courses for better results, and social media was the medium for adding this. I was hoping google+ would lend itself to this, but no...
http://gamification.org/wiki/Game_Mechanics
In any event, it seems to me that WAOE might create a website that lists freely available tech from the ever expanding universe of options, and links thereto, that teachers may employ for delivering courses.
Of course, this assumes that teachers desire to secede from the closed systems that their schools offer (or require) that teachers rely upon.
The #1 online educator by far is Sal Khan, at khanacademy.com ... which is no school at all. That may be the future for online teaching.
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