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Students need a rich curriculum and teachers need more support

Mark EggletonContributor

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Education is the oxygen of careers and in the digital economy of early 21st century we need to fundamentally change the way it’s delivered.

According to MIT’s Vice-President for Open Learning, Professor Sanjay Sarma, next year marks the real beginning of the 21st century as the first 20 years have been basically a continuation of the 1990s. The reason is that it’s only now that we’re seeing new technologies being born and widely adopted quickly and the whole world is about to be swept up in a period of monumental change.

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Mark Eggleton writes and compiles special reports for The Australian Financial Review. Email Mark at meggleton@afr.com.au

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