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If a curriculum is to be effective ... it must contain different
ways of activating children, different ways of presenting sequences,
different opportunities ... A curriculum, in short, must contain many
tracks leading to the same general goal. When we put together in one scheme such elements as a prescribed
curriculum, similar assignments for all students, lecturing as almost
the only mode of instruction, standard texts by which all students are
externally evaluated, and instructor chosen grades as the measure of
learning, then we can almost guarantee that meaningful learning will
be at an absolute minimum. I believe that the computer presence will enable us to so modify
the learning environment outside the classroom that much, if not all,
the knowledge schools presently try to each with such pain and expense
and much limited success will be learned, the child learns to walk,
painlessly, successfully, and without organised instruction. This obviously
implies that schools, as we know them today, will have no place in the
future. But it is an open question whether they will adapt by transforming
themselves into something new or whither away and be replaced.
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CurriculumWhat do you want to learn today?! The college will have the wealth of distance learning resource as a curriculum. There is in theory nothing that cannot be provided. There will be traditional learning outcomes (exams and qualifications) with progressive learning methodology. Teacher training will play a predominant part in all aspects of the curriculum. If you are learning something, learn how to teach it. The curriculum will be project, rather than course driven with academic encouragement without coercion. Whatever the subject, the learning application will have a bearing on its use in the world today. There are also new subjects for a new future that haven't been evaluated or even discovered yet! Workshops and projects
will be available in the following areas:
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