The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years

If you were asked to name the most important innovation in transportation over the last 200 years, you might say the combustion engine, air travel, Henry Fords Model-T production line or even the bicycle. The list goes on.

Now answer this one: Whats been the single biggest innovation in education?

Dont worry if you come up blank. Youre supposed to. The question is a gambit used by Anant Agarwal, the computer scientist named this year to head edX, a $60 million MIT-Harvard effort to stream a college education over the web, free, to anyone who wants one. His point: Its rare to see major technological advances in how people learn.

Agarwal believes that education is a…
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