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BYU Prof. Says University Classrooms Will Be "Irrelevant" By 2020
dragoncortez writes "According to this Deseret News article, University classrooms will be obsolete by 2020. BYU professor David Wiley envisions a world where students listen to lectures on iPods, and those lectures are also available online to everyone anywhere for free. Course materials are shared between universities, science labs are virtual, and digital textbooks are free. He says, 'Higher education doesn't reflect the life that students are living ... today's colleges are typically tethered, isolated, generic, and closed.' In the world according to Wiley, universities would still make money, because they have a marketable commodity: to get college credits and a diploma, you'd have to be a paying customer. Wiley helped start Flat World Knowledge, which creates peer-reviewed textbooks that can be downloaded for free, or bought as paperbacks for $30."
...where will I sleep?
Life is like a web application. Sometime you need cookies just to get by.
"What? You didn't support Obama last election? Get out of my classroom, you crypto-fascist son of a bitch!"
Colleges and universities don't just provide information.
They also provide physical proximity to classmates of the opposite sex.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
No more classrooms! Where will students sleep?
We're gonna breed a mutant race of sleep deprived zombies.
What's the world coming to
I bought my degree from the same people I buy my V1agr4.
Ascalante: Your bride is over 3,000 years old.
Kull: She told me she was 19!
.... 2019! bang! He is essentially saying, "Once I retire there is no one who is worth listening to in person and all professors will become irrelevant. Come on. Face it. I am the greatest prof of all time and after me it is not worth going to the univ. Just stand in line and buy my book."
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Absolutely agree. Lecture is mostly dead. I found myself skipped 50% of the classes. But classes does not consists the major part of my university life. Interaction with Professor, with Classmates, and the resources available in University that enable many more idea to be realized are the key.
Did he mention virtual Lab? I didn't RTFA but how is it going to work!? unless you are saying we are plugged in the Matrix...
Absolutely agree. Lecture is mostly dead. I found that I, myself, skipped 50% of the classes. But the major part of my university life does not consist of classes. Interaction with the Professor, with my classmates, and the resources available in University are the things that enable many more ideas to be realized. Those are the key.
Did he mention virtual Lab? I didn't RTFA but how is it going to work!? Unless you are saying we are plugged in the Matrix...
There, fixed that for you. I see you skipped most of the written communications, grammar and syntax classes.
you will not truly understand anatomy until you actually cut into a cadaver
this is very true, however there is still no reason that i need to be on the campus to study cadavers. we need to get back to the roots of anatomy and the entire medical profession...and don't they have graveyards pretty much everywhere?
I understand this, and in a 200 person lecture hall, you do lose out. I had many classes like this at my school, and my school (georgia tech) was constantly on the princeton review's worst teacher list. Even in these cases, however, you still had a TA who could sit and work with you in smaller settings. In theory, you could have an online TA, but this creates another problem - How are the attractive bimbos going to get through the classes if they can't physically sleep with their TA?
Logical falacy detected: attractive bimbos at Georgia Tech
I will say to y'alls credit that there are very very few dumb people at Georgia Tech. However, there are even fewer attractive people, let alone women.
GO DAWGS =)
How are the attractive bimbos going to get through the classes if they can't physically sleep with their TA?
Watch fewer pornos. That never happens.
You shouldn't give credence to someone with a degree from the University of Mom's Basement. Nor should you give credence to someone with a degree from anywhere else. ... ...
Personally, I kind of look down on people who stay in school.
So what you're saying is that you were never quite able to finish that degree.
You never really know how close to the edge you can go until you fall off.