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BitTorrent and Khan Academy To Distribute Education
drDugan writes "BitTorrent, Inc. announced this morning that they have launched a partnership with the Khan Academy to distribute open education videos. They launched with more than 2,000 videos, covering high school and college level curriculum, across science, math, history, finance and test prep. All of the videos are free to download and open licensed with Creative Commons."
Because when they do that, they cease to be expensive.
Let's face it, most classes could be taught by lecture with a live human audience for the first recording (those people will get most of the obvious questions that the professor answers over and over and over and over) and teaching assistants.
But, then you wouldn't need the professor again.
It's like newspaper columnists. When we had local papers you needed them.
But with national news media available, you really only need a dozen or so columnists in each area. Every one else is mostly redundant.
You could literally have a dozen college calculus teachers in the entire world.
Lowering the cost of providing calculus by 90%.
Same for most other undergraduate courses.
Only courses where the students actually need to talk interactively with the professor (very few) need human professors.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.