The availability of excellent graduate netcourses will substantially improve teacher preparation and professional development … Entire departments and schools of education will find themselves out of business unless they improve their teaching and scholarship, because their students will be recruited to stronger, more aggressive graduate schools throughout the world.
Predictor: Tinker, Bob
Prediction, in context:In 1995, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology commissioned a series of white papers on various issues related to networking technologies. The department convened the authors for a workshop in November 1995 to discuss the implications. The following statement is taken from one of the white papers, “The Whole World in Their Hands,” by Bob Tinker, the president of Concord Consortium, he has a Ph.D. in physics from MIT and a reputation as a pioneer in constructivist uses of educational technology. Tinker writes:”The availability of excellent graduate netcourses will substantially improve teacher preparation and professional development. With thousands of accredited courses available online, no teacher or prospective teacher will ever again have to suffer through a dull, meaningless course just because it is the only one available. That stuffy, old, sexist fogy droning on from outdated notes will have no audience. In fact, entire departments and schools of education will find themselves out of business unless they improve their teaching and scholarship, because their students will be recruited to stronger, more aggressive graduate schools throughout the world.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning
Title, headline, chapter name: The Whole World in Their Hands
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney