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With the growth of the Internet and World Wide Web, there has been an enormous proliferation of online tutorials, teachers and entire course materials for subjects as varied as music, psychology, chemical engineering and genetics are freely and readily available for anyone to read.
This means that a trend might emerge where students at various academic levels including kindergarten, elementary, middle, high school, undergraduate and even postgraduate, might be able to access the best teachers and tutorials regardless of location.
Already there are websites which rate the proficiency, ability and likeability of teachers and professors and some well-known universities such as MIT have actively supported uploading the best course material for all their courses and degrees so that it is more or less freely available to all students around the world. This is known as the open source courseware or simply opencourseware.
Course materials are available in ubiquitous PDF or Microsoft Office files, and they are frequently accompanied with video and interactive tutorials which explain concepts in an easy to understand step by step detail.
This technological revolution will create enormous incentive for those students who are driven and want to excel in their chosen profession, whereas students who lack motivation will have no alibis to fall back on, whether it is the lack of good teachers or well organized teaching material.
This also means that good teachers with attractive personality and sound knowledge will be in great demand as they will be sought by students from around the world, and average to mediocre teachers will go out of job or choose another line of work where their talent and aptitudes can be better utilized.
As the Internet and World Wide Web spread to large countries and regions such as China, Indian Subcontinent and Africa, the pace of web based tutorials and teachers who will use online video conferencing on laptops or smartphones will rise dramatically.
