All around the world, a lively debate is taking place on the subjects of learning and education. At the 2011 Networked Society Forum in Hong Kong, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes proclaimed that the textbook is dead. In a recent interview, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University, Sugata Mitra says that we don’t need institutional learning anymore because everything we need to learn has been dematerialized.
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Mikael Eriksson Björling 
I was a teacher. I did not dematerialize. I remember when I did teacher training in the 1970s we discussed how computers would make teachers obsolete. Perhaps we do not need expensive institutions but still a role for the teacher?
Hi,
Thanks for commenting! Absolutely, there will definitely be a need for teachers, it is just that their role and ways of working is changing.