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Hopefully universities will remove in person attendance requirements and make it possible to get degrees online / from home. Classes with 200 people sitting to

• rolph 7y ago
  the university lecture is a very antiquated tradition of dissemination i was told some time ago that it originates from the rarity of specialized books so the lecturer may have the only copy, if not one of very few copies, so lectures were used to make the contents available.
  • kspacewalk2 7y ago
    You were told wrong. A great book is not the same thing as an interactive lecture with a competent and engaging instructor. They are complimentary, but in no way does one obviate the need for the other.
    • saurik 7y ago
      A lecture is almost by definition not "interactive", and certainly if you have so many students that you are using facial recognition and iClickers to handle attendance the entire premise that you would react to individuals is infeasible.
      • ketzu 7y ago
        Only if you assume you react to all individuals at the same time constantly. In our lectures we try to make them interactive, but the degree of interactiveness varies based on the level and number of attendants. Questions are asked and answered in the 200 people lectures as well, and they improve the lectures for a lot of people.
    • rolph 7y ago
      there was a time as in when charles darwin was a freshman, when the lecturer had the only copy of a particular book because they wrote it and bound it themselves, the lecture was how that book was disseminated contemporary lectures in my past have always been about advancing knowledge that is not published in secondary literature in to correct concepts that have been modified.