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Wow, that's a big shift! I like the idea of the best professors nation-wide rising to the top, so that all students can benefit from their captivating lectures

Wow, that's a big shift! I like the idea of the best professors nation-wide rising to the top, so that all students can benefit from their captivating lectures rather than be stuck with their boring local professors. What I don't get, is how you overcome cheating on online exams. Of course I think the best answer is that we need to introduce apprenticeships into more career areas, and stop viewing college as a four year block of time, where you prepare yourself to be a productive member of the workforce.

rdtsc 17y ago
Apprenticeships would work great. Some colleges have co-op in their engineering collages. Those are great. They put you behind one year, but at the end of 5 years, you end up with 1 year of professional experience under your belt. That makes you much more hirable. Or you can have oral exams and make the student travel once at the end of each quarter to be examined by a panel of professors. Or assign open-ended problems to each individual student. Or have more project assignments that would illustrate or require understanding the theory.