Self-Taught: Moving from a Seat-Time Model to a Mastery-Learning Model

Chris Edwards

doi:10.5771/9781475868197

Summary

The American educational structure is a feudal system designed around an inefficient seat time model. This structure sets students against each other in competition, creates zip-code inequalities, and empowers an expensive and often damaging bureaucratic class of administrators. Due to shortages of teachers and staff, and to needless problems with curricula and testing, this system is about to fall. Historically, when feudal systems collapse, they create opportunities for new structures to emerge. Technology has made it possible to develop a new educational model that connects students to their community and reduces pressure on students and teachers. This new model makes it possible to deliver high quality education for all students, regardless of zip code, while turning students into active learners. Self Taught: Moving from a Seat Time Model to a Mastery Learning Model explains how this process can begin by asking just one question: what would you do if you needed to learn something?

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-6817-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-6819-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 114
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
1. The Civilization Conversation No access Pages 1 - 12
2. The Brain and Education No access Pages 13 - 26
3. The Seat-Time Model No access Pages 27 - 42
4. The Seat-Time Model and Society No access Pages 43 - 64
5. The Mastery-Learning Model No access Pages 65 - 74
6. Why Education Is Sequestered From Economic Trends and Innovation and How to Change This No access Pages 75 - 94
7. Workforce Development No access Pages 95 - 104
Conclusion: How Do We Do This? No access Pages 105 - 108
Bibliography No access Pages 109 - 112
About the Author No access Pages 113 - 114