I think that having live lectures is becoming more obsolete. I think the most valuable learning experiences happen when professors, TA's and students are interacting directly. Lectures can be recorded and put online. Then instead of lecturing,...
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4/3/13
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MIT would accept applications from entrepreneurs who wish to come to MIT to create new companies. Each entrepreneur would agree to give at least one seminar on entrepreneurship each semester. These entrepreneurs would be self funded or funded by...
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Both on-campus and online learning have advantages in how people learn, cost of education, accessibility, etc. The future MIT must combine the best on-campus experience with the best virtual experience offering the right material, through the right...
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4/3/13
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Plenty of learning takes place outside the classroom, library, or lab. Who you live with, where you live, and how you live with others matters. In class you will learn how to solve some differential equations or write some code. Outside of class...
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One of the most powerful aspects of my MIT education was the residential experience. Filling one's head with facts from an on-line course would duplicate about 50% of the MIT experience. Education is about more than just collecting facts - there is...
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Expanding the reach of education will place a greater emphasis on the need for leaders. Making skills and knowledge more widely accessible will make the ability to effectively channel that knowledge towards applications that benefit humanity will be...
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In the future, lectures may become relevant for more of the reasons that live rock concerts are relevant.
In the past, one chose MIT over other experiences because of reputation.
Perhaps that was once true of rock concerts too ("You...
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My work in planning and current research is indicating that cities - independent of location and culture - show an adherence to power laws to the effect that in doubling the population size requires only about 85% of the investment in infrastructure...
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I took the very first computer course at MIT. It is one thing to learn to program, but it is another to understand the numerical methods and issues. When I was at MIT, there were no such courses. Last year when I looked, there were just two, one of...
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Lots of great ideas have emerged in education in recent years, such as the idea of a flipped classroom, remote learning initiatives, project-based classrooms, etc. However, it's not clear to me to what extent these new methodologies are actually being...
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