It’s 2012 and we have big things underway! Plans for the wave tank and the new data collection tools are taking shape.
In the broader world of education, MIT’s new online learning initiative, MITx, is set to launch this year. Here’s a post from Rhett Allain at Wired with his take on what MITx means for university classes. What do you think it means for free-choice learning?
For one thing, I think it might bring more people from diverse environments together that might not otherwise get to learn together due to barriers of physical distance at the very least. Think about how many of our regular science center visitors are local or mostly-local. In OSU’s online FCL classes, we certainly get a wider range of practitioners working in different settings. On the other hand, if every university starts offering such a diversity, there could be interesting sub-groups and sub-specialties that develop at different schools (more grad school-esque) at more introductory levels such as undergraduate or more broadly, free-choice learners.