1) Article: Digital Aristotle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vsCAM17O-M

I came across a fascinating video discussing the future of education and how the internet will shape it's future.

In a perfect school, each student will have his or her own personal tutor (like Aristotle). That tutor would be personalized to that student, would be able to set a good pace of learning for that student, and could provide immediate feedback of how that student is doing.

Before the internet, this would be impossible because

1. There are not enough humans to personally tutor every child on earth.
2. It would be way to expensive to do so
3. Not everybody is not as good a tutor as Aristotle.

The internet is changing the state of education by slowly solving these problems. There is a virtually an unlimited amount of free information available to teach yourself just about everything. The internet solves the manpower problem and the cost problem, by connecting a huge audience of teachers with an even larger audience of students.

Here is a world history course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9

Here is a video showing how to find partial derivatives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbfRDBmyAMI

Wanna learn html5:? https://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC081AC329706B2953

Wanna develop android apps: ? https://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC2F07DBCDCC01493A

Not to mention, entire courses from other colleges: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-spring-2007/index.htm

And free creative commons courses: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Computers

The list goes on

As for the personalized tutor part, the internet will eventually solve that too. There is already advanced software at the khanacademy and the codeacademy that attempts to give the student more personalized learning experience by tracking a student's progress. Right now, those websites are used as tools, rather than full replacement for teachers, but in the future, a time will come when people realize it will be more efficient and effective to let students learn on their own.

-- Richard