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«Online learning is revolutionizing the world. Education will never be the same again. And edX is at the cutting edge of this revolution. So when you take edX courses online you are part of this revolution. Online learning is the ultimate democratizer. When you learn on edX, you are joining a community. Imagine taking a class with 100,000 or more students. This is social. This is a lot of fun»
[Anant Agarwal , CEO of edX - VoiceTube]
Conventional education systems fail to reflect (and often contradict) the vast range of new ideas, experiences and understandings from a variety of disciplines that relate to processes of learning. Conventional education systems are poorly prepared to deal with the challenges and opportunities inherent in the emerging information and communication technologies, and in the predicted information society. They have done little to address a growing problem of social fragmentation, human frustration and dis-empowerment, cultural dislocation, and technological alienation.
The processes of engaging in collaborative, multi channel and innovative learning are critical for both the development of the individual and the building and linking of culturally diverse communities. Individuals must be empowered to choose and to actively construct the learning communities to which they belong. This involves lowering barriers that stand in the way of individuals and communities wishing to engage in different learning opportunities. It involves a supra-national effort in critically rethinking some of the basic assumptions, processes, roles, relationships, approaches and discourses underlying conventional education systems and in creatively constructing new learning communities, and environments in which such communities can flourish [UNESCO - Learning Without Frontiers].
Telementoring is a mentoring relationship in which the primary form of contact between mentor and mentee/student is made through the use of the internet or mobile communication. Telementoring refers to the use of computer-mediated communications to support a mentoring relationship when a face-to-face relationship would be impractical.
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dr. Albert Benschop
Social & Behavioral Studies
University of Amsterdam
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