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University is fundamentally a social thing, both between peers and between students and knowledgeable people like the professor. >- The automated grading of as
by swiley 8y ago
University is fundamentally a social thing, both between peers and between students and knowledgeable people like the professor.
>- The automated grading of assignments meant that the class could scale to many hundreds of students
When you have things like this why are we paying so much?
- neilv 8y agoThat social thing exists sometimes, but I think it's overstated. Consider, for example, the many students whose only direct interaction with the professor is to try to get an extension on an assignment (arguably late because homework was encroaching on their hangover obligations). You can think of ways with simple technology and social organization to scale some version of the mythical social thing to much larger numbers of students, and to be available to anyone who will use that sincerely, not some lottery of acceptance and whether/how you can manage to swing the huge tuition (possibly taking on crippling debt for the rest of your life). I look forward to my degrees becoming officially worthless, with everyone having the same or better education easily available to them. We're already getting there, but we need to keep going in this direction, and to dispense with pretense. Things like better scalable feedback help.
- j16sdiz 8y ago> I look forward to my degrees becoming officially worthless, with everyone having the same or better education easily available to them Lots of degree have become worthless, with the tuition fee keep going up........