iTunes U - Change The Way The World Learns
Introduction and Background
This revolutionary application by Apple, gives you access to the world's largest online catalog of free education content from leading institutions. Learn a new language, study Shakespeare or discover a new cosmos. It has more than 500,000 courses from colleges all over the world, including Harvard, Oxford, MIT, Stanford .. and need I name more? It can be customized as well such that your professor uploads his lecture slides on iTunes U and sends it out to only people from your class. Thus changing the way the world learns.
Recap
The learning and teaching style of the world has changed unbelievably. Earlier there used to be days when the professor used to give lectures and write on the whiteboard for explanations. The students used to take notes and if they missed something, it's gone. Then came the time when slides used to be handed out in class. So at least if a student missed something, he/she would have a rough idea of what it was. Then came the smart boards. Whatever the teacher wrote on the board would come on the screen on the child's desk. And finally, today, we're at the stage when learning has been made an application. You just download the application and sit at home, whenever you want, and study the lectures the professors give. This is the extent to which the way the world learns has changed.
Future
What is the future of learning? Will we all becomes slaves to technology? Do you think education without a human touch is of any use? Isn't the classroom environment better than slouching on the bed at home and going through your phone or iPad for lecture slides? Isn't it possible that the intelligence level of the future generation suffers a serious blow because of this "tech savvy world" we are moving towards.
All of this will be answered in my topical review paper. Watch out for it :)
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