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I agree with the title, but this seems short-sighted: Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world Lectures m
by andreyf 16y ago
I agree with the title, but this seems short-sighted:
Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world
Lectures might be the optimal way of learning given the technology of the last millenium, but I don't think they'll survive even a century in this one. Computers are interactive interfaces, and "The Web" is an interactive medium. I have a feeling that whatever replaces lectures is going to take advantage of that.
- glhaynes 16y agoThere are non-interactive digital media too such as podcasts... it seems like nearly every scholarly lecture I try to listen to, though, has the first 20-30 minutes taken up by (multiple!) fawning introductions or a reading of the class syllabus. I'm getting annoyed just thinking about it.
- andreyf 16y agoBut podcasts aren't that different of a medium from radio, or mailing out tapes, for that matter. The web is different.
- nkassis 16y agoThings like this impress me: http://tryruby.org/ http://tryruby.org/ This could work for other subjects too.