MIT's OpenCourseware Initiative is an exciting example of how technology can help make great educational materials scale.
There are many other ways that technology can help educational resources scale.
The unique ability of technology to enable today's limited educational resources to scale quickly and affordably across great distances to a great many people makes it an essential ingredient in our efforts to transform education.
In a Policy Paper launched today in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, the UN agency documents the scale of educational deprivation across much of the country.
Disruptive innovation was unleashed with the ecosystem of the Silicon Valley behind it to deliver educational content in a high scale, low cost model while providing a deeply interactive experience to learners akin to one-on-one tutoring.
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Equally important, the State also established large-scale non-formal educational programmes for youths and adults and recruited people with any level of education to work as educators.
For organizations to succeed on a global scale, they should be partnering with educational institutes and forming symbiotic relationships that benefit both the future of education and the future of their company.
At the heart of almost all of these issues is the problem of scale: of finding ways to make high-quality educational resources--whether it's brilliant teachers, innovative lesson plans or inspiring new teaching methods--reach not just a handful of students in a single classroom but hundreds of millions of students around the globe.
But despite great effort, the educational system as a whole has been unable to apply this truth on a broad scale, to produce better results, until now.
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The forum was organised in association with the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation and focused on the findings and conclusions from an OECD study to map the scale and scope of OER initiatives in higher education.
This paradigm, which combines meaningful work that can be graded at scale with peer-teaching among students, allows us to offer some of our best educational content to students around the world, at a negligible marginal cost of pennies per student.
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