Seven drivers of learning

These days, amid widespread criticism of educational institutions and the results they deliver (or don’t!), educators of all kinds are being offered an onslaught of new technologydriven educational approaches. Their purpose is simple: to enhance students’ learning. Among them are Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which make lectures on almost any imaginable subject available anytime, anywhere for free. Online MBAs and troves of online educational content help students learn outside – rather than inside – the classroom. And within the classroom doors, new digital and other tools hope to bring what are all-too-often soulless and boring lectures to life: collaborative tools, polling devices, the so-called “flipped classroom” and more. Some of these innovations may stand the test of time. Others surely will not