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...
Idea Bank: Global Implications of EdX
4/3/13
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4/3/13
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I love how online texts, demos and videos are increasingly available to students. But I believe that MIT courses should never totally be online. Online material offers incredibly valuable supplements, but an MIT education would simply not be an MIT...
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4/3/13
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MIT policy should be changed to make all intellectual property developed by anyone at MIT the sole property of the inventor(s). The primary reason for this is that the current process slows down innovation tremendously. A secondary reason is that...
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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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4/3/13
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Break MIT subjects into atomistic concepts that are linked across the entire institute--each concept might take a day or a week to master, but much shorter than a semester-long class. Students learn what they want to learn, and they can see how each...
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4/2/13
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Enhance the class experience by generating interaction among different kinds of groups. For example in a course, create a problem set that has to be solved by teams in different countries. The teams can't meet in person and so have to resolve the...
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