Higher-ed leaders meet to discuss future of online learning - Larry Hardesty, MIT News

Educators are only beginning to scratch the surface of the possibilities presented by online-learning technologies. As Philipp Schmidt, director of Peer 2 Peer University and a fellow at the Media Lab, put it during the first panel, the field is now at the stage where film was when the first movie cameras became available and people immediately mounted them at the backs of theaters to record stage plays. But the mere fact that the rapid proliferation of online-learning tools has forced universities to reexamine their pedagogical assumptions may be a step forward in itself. As MIT President L. Rafael Reif said after the conference, "I couldn't have imagined circumstances in which you could get all these communities together to discuss education." http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/edx-summit-0306.html