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I remember hearing this from Sol Khan, who must be a fan of Plato because he went on to form an academy. I’d like to experience it. The model didn’t get starte

I remember hearing this from Sol Khan, who must be a fan of Plato because he went on to form an academy. I’d like to experience it. The model didn’t get started until after I finished college. I’ve done online classes, but they miss the in-person dialog component. In general the problem is that administration wants to see education “scale” and the flipper classroom is tied to people. You have to get everyone together at the same time and same place (in-person is best, but I guess Zoom might substitute). This puts a ceiling on scaling.

bluGill 5y ago
Lectures scale well. Once there over more than around 30 people in the room it isn't possible be interactive anyway. So a video of the best lecturer is better than the average lecturer in person. That video of the lecture can have a few students (ideally plants who are scripted to ask the right questions - though this is not an easy thing to get right), but for the most part once you are over 30 students nobody is interactive anyway. You still need that interactive instruction. The worse professor I had in college was still better than the ones at MIT - I've never been in the same state as MIT which means they were terrible at interacting with me. And of course the in person interaction does not scale.
owl57 5y ago
> I guess Zoom might substitute Yes, but not for everyone. I used the pandemic as a chance to get back into classroom and ask a lot of questions, and even deliberately chose my spring courses to be online every evening from Monday to Friday, wouldn't pull that off with commute. But I'm sure other people can get much more in-person, when the interaction starts with eye contact and not only when the student is bold enough to unmute.