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Training often requires other resources besides one-way communication. A professor who only lectured and didn't otherwise interact with students would be a bad,

Training often requires other resources besides one-way communication. A professor who only lectured and didn't otherwise interact with students would be a bad, ineffective teacher.

WalterBright 9y ago
The internet is full of people who can help you, like stackexchange.com for programmers.
- forapurpose 9y ago
  Yes, but it's not really the same thing at all as a teacher in a classroom and after class, focusing on the student and their educational development, or a professor in their office. Few I've encountered online are as knowledgeable as 90% of my professors. (And most fields of knowledge have less online community than IT.) If someone said they were shutting down local schools and just telling the kids to watch YouTube and ask question online, I'd be horrified, the kids would get far less attention and teaching, and the kids would be far less educated. Also, few would have the self-motivation to pull it off. Not to knock Khan Academy, etc. completely. One idea I've heard is having students watch the lecture at home - everyone can see the best lecturers in the world - and do their 'homework', with personal attention from the teacher, in class.
  - kamaal 9y ago
    >>Yes, but it's not really the same thing at all as a teacher in a classroom and after class, focusing on the student and their educational development, or a professor in their office. In most top universities, teaching largely works through learning by doing. Its just that they keep the quality of assignments high. So your projects make up for it. Also note those taking online courses have an active interest to get good at things, so they would work on these projects. In the real world you need as much as you can receive from a lecture. Beyond that mostly you have to learn on the job. So online learning will work for most cases. Yeah in some cases you can't fully learn it without a teacher, such cases will exist, but will be exceptions to the rule. >>If someone said they were shutting down local schools and just telling the kids to watch YouTube and ask question online, I'd be horrified, the kids would get far less attention and teaching, and the kids would be far less educated. Also, few would have the self-motivation to pull it off. There is a reason why despite all the awesome public education system US has compared to the rest of the world, only a fixed percentage of awesome people come out of it every month. Every thing at the end comes down to personal motivation. You can't make anyone succeed without their participation and will.
klokoman 9y ago
This is how most of uni lectures are. The only interaction you get is badly answered questions that would not have been asked if it was to possible to pause or rewind the lecture.

Training often requires other resources besides one-way communication. A professor who only lectured and didn't otherwise interact with students would be a bad, ineffective teacher.

WalterBright 9y ago

The internet is full of people who can help you, like stackexchange.com for programmers.

forapurpose 9y ago
Yes, but it's not really the same thing at all as a teacher in a classroom and after class, focusing on the student and their educational development, or a professor in their office. Few I've encountered online are as knowledgeable as 90% of my professors. (And most fields of knowledge have less online community than IT.) If someone said they were shutting down local schools and just telling the kids to watch YouTube and ask question online, I'd be horrified, the kids would get far less attention and teaching, and the kids would be far less educated. Also, few would have the self-motivation to pull it off. Not to knock Khan Academy, etc. completely. One idea I've heard is having students watch the lecture at home - everyone can see the best lecturers in the world - and do their 'homework', with personal attention from the teacher, in class.
- kamaal 9y ago
  >>Yes, but it's not really the same thing at all as a teacher in a classroom and after class, focusing on the student and their educational development, or a professor in their office. In most top universities, teaching largely works through learning by doing. Its just that they keep the quality of assignments high. So your projects make up for it. Also note those taking online courses have an active interest to get good at things, so they would work on these projects. In the real world you need as much as you can receive from a lecture. Beyond that mostly you have to learn on the job. So online learning will work for most cases. Yeah in some cases you can't fully learn it without a teacher, such cases will exist, but will be exceptions to the rule. >>If someone said they were shutting down local schools and just telling the kids to watch YouTube and ask question online, I'd be horrified, the kids would get far less attention and teaching, and the kids would be far less educated. Also, few would have the self-motivation to pull it off. There is a reason why despite all the awesome public education system US has compared to the rest of the world, only a fixed percentage of awesome people come out of it every month. Every thing at the end comes down to personal motivation. You can't make anyone succeed without their participation and will.

klokoman 9y ago

This is how most of uni lectures are. The only interaction you get is badly answered questions that would not have been asked if it was to possible to pause or rewind the lecture.