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It took me a while to get through this book because it's really quite a lot of books in one. It's partly a memoir of the primary author (Sanjay Sarma's) educational journey. It's partly a history of education and, in particular, of online education. It's partly a survey of some different approaches to education. It's partly a history of MIT-specific contributions to all of these things, and especially to the MIT's role in the teaching of robotics.
If you are a professional educator, particularly one involved in online education, it's certainly worth your attention. Though, like me, you might find yourself wishing it had been broken into more than one book. Sarma's journey is an interesting one and could have been fleshed out into a memoir. MIT's role in online education is important and could have been a book on its own. The educational history and competing philosophies of instruction are also worthy of book-length treatments.
That said, though the book is a lot of things, all of those things are valuable. So, while I found it a lot to get through, I also found a lot of value in it.
If you are a professional educator, particularly one involved in online education, it's certainly worth your attention. Though, like me, you might find yourself wishing it had been broken into more than one book. Sarma's journey is an interesting one and could have been fleshed out into a memoir. MIT's role in online education is important and could have been a book on its own. The educational history and competing philosophies of instruction are also worthy of book-length treatments.
That said, though the book is a lot of things, all of those things are valuable. So, while I found it a lot to get through, I also found a lot of value in it.
Make sure to take your time when reading his book because it … actively requires you to think and pay attention and use recall - at least for me, where almost all of the concepts were brand new to me.
As an educator, this book started out hopeful for me. However, by the end it was just another book of propaganda for the elite, exclusionary education model. I was hopeful, but as he leaned into to MITx I almost didn’t finish the book. If you e ever taken a MITx class you know that they are sloggish, erudite, and inaccessible to non-traditional students. It’s not enough to throw a lecture up on the internet and call it elearning. It takes planning and intention, and the author clearly needs to revisit what those definitions are. Maybe other people will find his suggestions helpful, but as a former teacher and current instructional designer I found privileged and tone deaf.
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