Is education broken?

During the EDEN Conference in Barcelona this summer I had the pleasure to interview several keynote speakers. One was Audrey Watters, who has been in evidence recently at a number of high profile events such as ALT-C 2014 and ICDE 2015. Formerly a university academic and now a freelance writer, Audrey has courted her fair share of controversy and opposition, not least due to her forthright views on education, technology and a host of related topics. As a self styled 'expert on political pie throwing', rabble rouser and 'Ed Tech's Cassandra', Audrey Watters is not shy of making her views public on her blog Hack Education and she makes for interesting conversation. This interview was recorded for the EDEN YouTube channel, featuring questions such as: Is education broken beyond repair? Is Google the largest surveillance network in the world? Does the web constitute a new form of cultural hegemony? Is the web really open?



Video courtesy of the European Distance and E-learning Network


Is education broken? by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.