Interesting post on iLibrarian about online education and what it suggests about our ideas of the educational system in general.
I was intrigued to learn that "Thomas Frey, an expert on online education, compares our growing reliance on the education system to the reliance of ancient Romans on their numeric system."
I'm always interested in how education resembles Roman numerals! The basic argument is that our current educational system, like the Romans' attractively retro but clumsy numeric system, worked OK for a while but is on the verge of being replaced by something more sophisticated and capable of more.
Check it out!
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