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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.
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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?
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.