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I'd like to reimagine education. The last year has seen the invention of a new four-letter word.
我想要重新定義教育。去年出現了一個新的四字單詞。
It starts with an M. MOOC: massive open online courses.
以M開頭的縮寫詞MOOC：大規模網絡公開課。
Many organizations are offering these online courses to students all over the world, in the millions, for free.
許多機構陸續免費提供這些網絡課程給全世界數以百萬計的學生。
Anybody who has an Internet connection and the will to learn can access these great courses from excellent universities
任何能夠連接到因特網的人，如果想要學習這些課程，可以訪問這些名校名課，
and get a credential at the end of it. Now, in this discussion today, I'm going to focus on a different aspect of MOOCs.
并在課程結束時獲得專業證書。在接下來的討論中，我會將話題集中在網絡公開課的另一面。
We are taking what we are learning and the technologies we are developing in the large
我們大范圍地吸收所學的知識和開發的技術，
and applying them in the small to create a blended model of education to really reinvent and reimagine what we do in the classroom.
卻小面積的應用，創造了一種混合的教育模式，真正意義上地重新確立和定義教室里的教學內容。
Now, our classrooms could use change. So, here's a classroom at this little three-letter institute in the Northeast of America, MIT.
我們的教室需要改變。這是一間教室，其所屬的教育機構有三個字母組成，即美國東北部的MIT。
And this was a classroom about 50 or 60 years ago, and this is a classroom today.
這是五六十年代的一間教室，而這是目前使用的教室。
What's changed? The seats are in color. Whoop-de-do. Education really hasn't changed in the past 500 years.
有什么變化嗎？座位有了顏色，大吹大擂，教育模式在過去的500年內根本未曾改變過。
The last big innovation in education was the printing press and the textbooks.
教育領域里最近的一個大革新是印刷機和教科書。
