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I agree and have had a similar idea for awhile. Have the best lecturers for given subjects create outstanding virtual courses, develop sets of curricula off of
by harmon 4y ago
I agree and have had a similar idea for awhile. Have the best lecturers for given subjects create outstanding virtual courses, develop sets of curricula off of those courses, and have TAs (PhDs in your model) provide local instruction and tutoring to augment the standard coursework.
It seems crazy to me that we have thousands of new faculty members and PhDs begrudgingly spending time developing their own way of teaching material (instead of working on research which is what they actually want to do and are good at) when there are people who are clearly the best in the business at teaching their subject matter whose work we should be using instead.
- rootusrootus 4y agoBased on my experience, we'd get better real world results if we abandoned most universities and promoted community colleges to full undergrad level. My best teachers by far were at a community college. Probably because that's all they did. No begrudgingly 'teaching' students while really wanting to do research. Not that there isn't a place for research teaching, and students along that path, but like 99% of everyone else would get better results from a different academic culture.