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I think its important to distinguish that a lot of EE, biology, or physics classes could moved into an online format because not all of these classes are labs.
by lightcatcher 15y ago
I think its important to distinguish that a lot of EE, biology, or physics classes could moved into an online format because not all of these classes are labs. The demos would be easy to replicate just as part of the videos of the lectures.
- Vivtek 15y agoYeah, my wife is a physicist and is very excited about this trend.
- fl3tch 15y agoI'm a graduate student in the sciences and every biology, chemistry and physics class that I took had a lab, except the evolution class. You could put the lectures online, but universities will never be completely replaced, as long as people want to learn science or do research.
- lightcatcher 15y agohmm, at Caltech (my school) the courses are very much divided into either lecture courses or lab courses, and the phys/chem/bio majors probably have 2/3 lecture classes and 1/3 lab classes. The lecture only classes could very easily be put into an online format.
- moonchrome 15y ago>as long as people want to learn science or do research Maybe this will create a large demand for amateur level/mass producable/cheap lab equipment and that would eventually lead to a situation like PC vs Server where even top notch servers are ~ comodity hardware on steroids. This would lower the barrier for innovation significantly.