{"id":23467,"date":"2012-05-31T14:57:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/smarterplanet-what-my-11-year-olds-stanford\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:54:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:54:37","slug":"smarterplanet-what-my-11-year-olds-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/smarterplanet-what-my-11-year-olds-stanford\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23467 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/smarterplanet-what-my-11-year-olds-stanford\/attachment\/23468\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m4sgcee5CP1qzs4rbo1_400-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/smarterplanet.tumblr.com\/post\/24014444675\/what-my-11-year-olds-stanford-course-taught-me\">smarterplanet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joshuagans\/2012\/05\/07\/what-my-11-year-olds-stanford-course-taught-me-about-online-education\/\">What My 11 Year Old\u2019s Stanford Course Taught Me About Online Education &#8211; Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My 11 year old son just took a course at Stanford. That has a nice ring to it but it is actually meaningless because these days anyone can take a course at Stanford. You don\u2019t even have to pay. All you need is access to a computer and a reasonable Internet connection. So what we can say is my 11 year old son just watched a bunch of videos on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t make for an interesting post except that this \u2018bunch of videos\u2019 is currently being heralded as the future of higher education. In the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/places\/ny\/new-york\/\">New York<\/a>\u00a0Times<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/04\/opinion\/brooks-the-campus-tsunami.html\">David Brooks saw<\/a>\u00a0courses like the one my son took as a tsunami about to hit campuses all over the world. And he isn\u2019t alone. Harvard\u2019s Clay Christensen sees it as<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Disrupting-Class-Disruptive-Innovation-Change\/dp\/0071592067?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1228947632&amp;sr=1-1\">a transformative technology<\/a>\u00a0that will change education forever. And along with Stanford many other institutions, most notably Harvard and MIT, are leaping into the online mix. This is attracting attention and investment dollars. It has people nervous and excited. So I wondered, what happens when someone who has grown up online encountered one of these new ventures?<\/p>\n<p>The course my son just completed was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/course\/gametheory\">\u2018Game Theory\u2019 taught by Matthew Jackson and Yoav Shoham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smarterplanet: What My 11 Year Old\u2019s Stanford Course Taught Me About Online Education &#8211; Forbes My 11 year old son just took a course at Stanford. That has a nice ring to it but it is actually meaningless because these days anyone can take a course at Stanford. You don\u2019t even have to pay. 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