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Live lectures are an outdated way to communicate. They and any written material teachers can provide can always be made available online or as text. What is special about being part of an academic community is not the courses,...
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4/3/13
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A hypothetical university enrolls 100 students in its freshman class. Without fail, 10% of those students drop out during their first year. This university could accept an additional 40 students to take online courses only. These 40 students would...
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4/3/13
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My sister recently took her actuarial exam. She has a math degree, but not necessarily the course work to pass the first exam. This seems like an ideal place to utilize online course work. Maybe companies/individuals could spend a few hundred bucks...
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4/3/13
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I can imaging taking one professor, placing him in a community college with 20 (excellent) students and giving him full access to the online courses. In 4 years and with a few bucks for the professor’s time and for class projects, you could have 20...
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4/3/13
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MIT is the premiere science, technology and engineering university in the US and the world. Whatever we do with online education, we need to be the world leader in making it as accessible and inclusive to the widest possible audience. This means...
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Thesis: We should regard online presentations as adding to (rather than replacing) live presentations.
The best evidence I know in favor of this thesis is the continuing - I would say, growing - enthusiasm in the world of science and technology...
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Things may have changed since my time ('49), but in EE we got no practical design experience, only analysis. There should be more real design, as in architecture, for all students.
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One huge advantage of the online experience is the freedom from time and space restrictions--somtimes beneficial for the residential experience, but sometimes limiting, too (for example, I have heard professors complain that they used to teach X...
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4/3/13
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In my opinion there is no replacement for classroom lectures; however, it would be useful if they were videotaped. Sometimes I miss things said by the Professor or would find it useful to simply hear it again. Currently I would have to either have...
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It is the best of both worlds, using both on line tools and hands on education. Both Students and Professors are able to interface from the comfort of their living space. On the other hand, students may still need the personal interface with educators...
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