http://blogs.darden.virginia.edu/deansblog/2012/06/new-technology-b-schools-and-darwin/ Darden School of Business Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:07:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.darden.virginia.edu/deansblog/2012/06/new-technology-b-schools-and-darwin/comment-page-1/#comment-12043 Joseph Henry Vogel Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:26:05 +0000 http://blogs.darden.virginia.edu/deansblog/?p=1073#comment-12043 The article makes reference to Charles Darwin but misses a major evolutionary insight that is pertinent to education: Homo sapiens is a social animal. High-tech solutions tend to extricate students from other students and thereby eliminate dialog which has been key to education ever since Socrates. The appropriate technology may be a simple Discussion Board where participation is a graded component of the course. Such a simple solution will also suffer less resistance from an aging and tenured faculty.

]]> http://blogs.darden.virginia.edu/deansblog/2012/06/new-technology-b-schools-and-darwin/comment-page-1/#comment-11257 Anil Kumar Mon, 11 Jun 2012 01:29:14 +0000 http://blogs.darden.virginia.edu/deansblog/?p=1073#comment-11257 Indeed a very well timed and well written article. I myself have tried my hand at a couple of online courses offered by Stanford, Sloan and Princeton. The education system will leap frog into a new era and content of the course would become a commodity. In fact people in countries like India will benefit a lot. Qualty education will become universal.

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