Virtual Classrooms Quotes

If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web.

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.

High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.

The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite. Cinema never replaced theatre. TV didn't replace radio. I wonder how different digital education will be from classrooms, and where it will lead us.

There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large.

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.

I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

Building virtual classrooms was the brainchild of Charity Dreams. So many people play games online, it's a huge business - and so harnessing the power of the Charity Dreams community to help build classrooms just made a lot of sense.

Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.