Playing the Indian Card

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

The Future of Academics

This is the future of academics: TED Talks.

Now, we have a live professor, plus a textbook. Soon, we will also have canned lectures from the leading expert, or most inspiring teacher, in each topic. Not to mention great multimedia demonstrations, as in this clip of Hans Rosling. I think the classroom will survive, because we enjoy doing things in groups; but it will be open to the world.

And graduate school will be a worldwide email discussion group.

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