Fundamentally, I think you are very much in the right here, Gil. But
geniuses can provide the hooks for catching attention. The words "role
models" come to mind.
I understand from the Washington Post article that lecturing is merely
intended as the Online University's starting point. Somewhere along the
line, mentors are needed to rub students' noses real hard in the
intellectual dirt, and to balance out that agony by making sure that
students get a sense of exhilarating accomplishment as well.
I imagine something like our Colloquium with shared screenboards and
cameras for good measure ..
Henry
Henry
Gil Regev wrote:
> From: "Gil Regev" <gil.regev@epfl.ch>
> My concern is that of equating lecturing and teaching with learning.
> Most research I have looked at points to the contrary. People don't
> learn just by listening to Geniuses.Gil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Miller [mailto:jeffm@dynamite.com.au]
> Sent: mercredi, 15. mars 2000 23:21
> To: unrev-II@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [unrev-II] Online University
>
> From: Jeff Miller <jeffm@dynamite.com.au>
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:00:58AM -0600, Jon Winters wrote:
>
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9402-2000Mar14.html
>
> >
> > <snip>
> > Michael Saylor will announce tomorrow that he has donated
> $100 million as
> > a down payment toward creating an online university that
> he says will
> > offer an "Ivy League-quality" education to anyone in the
> world--free.
> > </snip>
> >
> > Its an exciting possibility.
>
> My only concern at this stage is that he does not limit the
> lecturers to
> americian experts. It would be in his and everyones best
> interest if he
> included speakers from the uk, china, australia, and alike.
>
> Jeff.
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