ONLINE : ONLINE Learning
Learning : Learning Was one to one
In Aristo times
That was : That was Around
B.C. 450 or so
Scholars : Scholars Used to get together
And learn from Aristo, Pitagor, Plato
One to One
Slide 5 : GUTENBERG
Invented
Printing Machines
In 1630
People : People Started learning from BOOKS
wherever they are available
Slide 7 : Masses of People started
to learn from books
Through Years : Through Years Many many
technologies
are added
New Technologies : New Technologies Books
Desks
Chalk
Color Chalks
Blackboard
Greenboard
Whiteboard Transparencies
Overhead
Slide Machines
Projectors
16 mm Movies
Computers
INTERNET, ONLINE
Face to Face Education : Face to Face Education Teacher prepares himself for at least 10 hours before he goes to class next morning
He lectures in class, students may ask questions, may be there is some discussion
He has office hours, some students may visit him
He gives assignments to students
Slide 11 : Students prepare assignments, teacher or an assistant corrects them
Teacher makes a final exam and grade them
Accordingly students get grades and credits and finally degrees.
PROCESS : PROCESS Requires many things
Brick and mortar building
Heating, cooling, maintaining building
Lots of desks, typewriters, books, tables,administrative hardware
Teachers’ salaries
Teachers have to work for only 100 at most 200 students
Slide 13 : The cost per student per year $20.000
Plus living expenses
Plus time and money he lost from his work
Plus time he lost on the way
For the last 200 or so years : For the last 200 or so years Brick and mortar school were prevalent
Technology changed everything
There are no carriages anymore , but cars
There are no steamboats anymore, but diesel engine ships
There are no propellar airplains, but jets and supersonics
Slide 15 : So there is no brick and mortar school
But
ONLINE CENTERS
Slide 16 : All the lectures of the teachers can be recorded in text as well as as video by the best teachers of the world.
One is not bound to a local teacher
Raising good teachers is not an easy job
Slide 17 : In an ONLINE Course
You can watch the lecture as many times as you wish
You do not have to take notes
You watch until you understand
Even there is transcript of the lecture
Slide 18 : Even the course designer probably added
Some simulations,
Some animations,
Lots of Graphics
Slides even some extra videoes to live in
Slide 19 : Students can access to their teachers
By email any time of the day
24 Hours a day 7 days a week
Slide 20 : Students can do all their assignment as well
And send them to their teacher by email
Teachers send them back corrected
Slide 21 : Everything is PACKED in a wonderful
Package.
That Package can go anywhere in the world
Without cost to anybody .
Slide 22 : RESULT
All Students of the World
GRASP the content
Much better than face to face class
Slide 23 : Is there any invention better than
ONLINE Education ?
Slide 24 : To raise good teachers
is not an easy job
Slide 25 : Let us be honest with ourselves.
It is just impossible.
Particularly in today’s salary scale no smart people go to education school
Slide 26 : Even if you have money it takes a decade to raise 2-3 million more good teachers
Slide 27 : In less than
30 years
Slide 28 : There will not be any brick and mortar schools, but fully ONLINE LEARNING CENTERS of research Universities
Knowledge will be created once at a high cost but then it will be SHARED by millions in the world. At a NILL cost .
There will be lifelong learning from cradle to grave
The Whole World : The Whole World Will be ONLINE
7 Billion people will be able to access to all online programs in the world, FREE
Slide 30 : It started
Today many online courses of
Yale - MIT - Harvard - Princeton
Stanford - Berkeley
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia – Uni.of Michigan - UCLA
Slide 31 : Are all
FREE
All Their Courses : All Their Courses Can be access by 7 billion people of the world.
The idea has to be disseminated
It is being disseminated in Turkey among 3.000.000 Higher Education Students .
For the world Peace : For the world Peace Everybody has to learn English
Today anyhow, no employer in Turkey hire a person who does not speak English. Period.
Second, third language are also better.
Let us do not FORGET : Let us do not FORGET ONLINE is for masses
ONLINE is for millions or at least thousands
One mistake my American friends are making “ they develop courses for several hundred students per year “
If an ONLINE course is SHARED by thousands of students in USA and in the world cost will be nill.
SO : SO Let us
SHARE
Slide 36 : Muvaffak GÖZAYDIN
ONLINE Education Corp in Turkey
mgozaydin@hotmail.com
Initiator of 15.000.000 K12
ONLINE Project in TURKEY
in 1995