Replace e-ink readers with tablets, which are the price of 1 textbook. Have 12hr tutor rooms where students can drop in and ask questions they are stuck about.

Replace e-ink readers with tablets, which are the price of 1 textbook. Have 12hr tutor rooms where students can drop in and ask questions they are stuck about. Tutors can be paid less then professors and are far more convenient than lectures. That along with recorded office hours with professors for the harder courses would make an experience superior to most lecture style courses. People would have to write down their questions while watching the lectures, could probably watch the lectures with fellow students in a TV room with the tutor room right next door in the library or right in the tutor room on their tablets. TA-level pay grade markers would mark everything. This wont work for everything, but it will work for the vast majority of courses. One building the size of a library with a combo study hall / cafe could probably cover the needs of an entire university.