Vision Of “World Wide Education Platform” (WWEP!)

The vision

People all over the world would go to a few education providers online for all their education and learning.

"In 50 years, he (Sebastian Thrun) says, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them." [1]

I believe it will happen a lot earlier than 2050.

Main Themes of “World Wide Education Platform”

• One Mobile Computer with broadband access per child 
• Content
• Authoritative Courses
• Interactive Content 
• Programming, Computing
• E-book Subscription
• Wiki, QA. 
• Learning by doing: Projects, Open Platforms, Open source software, DIY
• Teaching Meta-Learning Skills
• HTML5 based. (Type of device won't become a roadblock.)
• Personalized Education
• Content Discovery: Search, Recommendation, Hyperlinks
• Big Data 
• Gamified Experience
• Community driven
• Wikinomics
• DIY Communities 
• Lifelong Education
• Works collaboratively with existing Educational Institutions (Schools, Colleges, Universities)

Minimum goal of education should be to teach people required skills so that they can learn whatever they need, acquire whichever skill they want to excel at, on their own.

There lies enormous potential in each and everyone of us. A great education system would unlock that potential.

Current Platforms
Udacity
Coursera
EdX
Khan Academy
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Fundamental Shift In Education - A Requirement Of Our Time

Reference

[1] The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever
[2] Online learning: Campus 2.0
[3] Scientific American: Learning In The Digital Age