At the moment, the in-person college experience is superior to taking classes online. Today, online teaching is mostly simple videos of people talking and pointing at things. But that advantage of in-person college over online classes won’t last forever. The in-person experience will stay largely as it is, but online lessons will evolve indefinitely toward better techniques, more content, and more scientifically-proven methods. Best practices will propagate quickly online. Only three things are missing to make this vision of universal free online college a reality: 1. You need an open online platform on which anyone can post a lesson plan, and anyone else can use it or improve it. 2. You need a law that says copyrights are suspended for the online education platform (only), so anyone can copy and improve the work that came before. 3. You need some form of accreditation. More... Free College (online) | Scott Adams' Blog Maybe someone here will wish to experiment with the Whenhub platform.
No surprise that there are people working on all this stuff Virtual Labs Shaping The Next Wave Of Distance Learning
Glad to see Scott Adams weighing in on this issue. He's got pretty good track record of of forecasting and/or predicting (however we always have to wonder if these predictions are only coming true due to his adept persuasion tactics!)
I'm awaiting feedback on how the APUS electrical engineering program is working out. Past attempts at that sort of training flopped but that was long ago.
Well, I shelled out for the Scott Adams Virtual Bridge but now can't find a virtual river for it. That aside, I think that what we call higher education is in a stuck-on-stupid, 19th Century mode of delivery and that must change. Adams has apparently stumbled into being part of the change.
I disagree on the grounds that no single method fits all. Having done both, I prefer online and find it superior for a number of reasons such as: - Working at my own pace - Having a flexible schedule - Not being held back by students who learn slower or work with less ambition - Being able to have contact with an instructor far more than I was ever able to in-person since getting time in-person often became a competition. I'm not interested in (nor do I have the time) to deal with that at this point in my life. But, other may feel the opposite for very good reasons which goes back to the point that no single method fits all.
Yeah, it's all open to discussion or disagreement. I do agree with him in saying the online format will (should?) improve over time.
