MOOCs and Reforming Higher Education (Kentaro Toyama) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

MOOCs and Reforming Higher Education (Kentaro Toyama) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:

MOOCs and Reforming Higher Education (Kentaro Toyama)

by larrycuban

This post appeared in “Educational Technology Debate: Exploring ICT and Learning in Developing Countries,” in April 2013. The debate is managed by three editors. They can be reached athttp://edutechdebate.org/contact/
The following biography is taken from Toyama’s description of himself.
Kentaro Toyama is a researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, and a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.
 Until 2009, he was assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India, which he co-founded in 2005. At MSR India, he started the Technology for Emerging Markets research group, which conducts interdisciplinary research to understand how the world’s poorer communities interact with electronic technology and to invent new ways for technology to support their socio-economic development. The award-winning group is known for projects such as MultiPoint, Text-Free User Interfaces, and Digital