It will mean increasing the country's student population from 12 million to over 30 million, and will put it on course to becoming one of the world's largest education systems.
MOOCs burst onto the educational scene in the last five years; they quickly ramped up from a small buffet of passive streaming video lectures from top universities to becoming a central part of actual classes at the largest education systems in the U.S. MOOCs come in two broad categories: blended and purely online.
"You cannot run such a large education system from the centre," says Ron Glatter of the Open University.
"You can't structure a policy regimen for any kind of large education system around those artistic, romantic ideas," Mr. Finn said.
But test scores, while important, do not necessarily provide an absolute appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of voucher programs in a large education system.
WITH roughly 55m students, 3m teachers and more than 236,000 schools in 500 districts, Indonesia has the world's fourth-largest education system.
Because of budget cuts, California community colleges, the largest higher education system in the country, enrolled 21,000 fewer students in the 2009-10 academic year than the previous year.
Presently, BRAC prides itself in achieving the milestones of being the largest secular education system in the world by having 10 million local students (The Daily Star 2015) and 9 million global students (BRAC 2016) enrolled in around 38,000 primary and pre-primary BRAC schools.
In a couple of months, more than one million students will begin their school year in the City of New York, our nation's largest public education system.
Since 1998, the percentage of GDP dedicated to education has almost tripled; the number of colleges has doubled; and in only a decade, China has built the largest higher education system in the world.
