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How Do We Gracefully Fake a Functioning Online University System?

• barry-cotter 6y ago
  > In short, I was looking for a solution when actually what is desperately needed is a face-saving kludge. Right now, most young Americans passing through the US education system do not acquire critical skills and deep knowledge of their chosen subjects. The fact is, that's largely not what higher education is for. It can't be. If it was, you wouldn't do it the way it's done. ... > The real trick that I think colleges are looking for right now is to find a cheap way to move classes online that doesn't rock the boat. A way that the strong students can get on with learning on their own and the weak students can be kept entertained long enough to pass the course. And a way for the really weak students to go on pretending to learn while we go on pretending that they've learned something. But it has to at least have a veneer of seriousness and accountability. And that's what's hard. That's the problem that'll make some tech firm rich when they figure out a way to solve it.