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Thank you for sending this around. On-line courses for doing science 
always seem impossible to imagine but this really provides some concrete 
examples.
Lynn Baum

On 7/18/13 12:42 AM, Charles Carlson wrote:
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> Here's a thoughtful reprise on the changing nature of education, MOOC's and all that.  To me, it's a perfect point to reconsider and expand the role of science museums within the educational spectrum, it ain't about informal anymore but an emergent model encompassing one's lifetime.
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> The academic community is frequently referred to as conservative, and the upcoming changes may be the greatest in a thousand years or 600 depending upon your cultural heritage.  It's a thought provoking article.
> http://www.nature.com/news/education-online-the-virtual-lab-1.13383
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