Comment Re:OpenEDU? (Score 1) 284
Actually it isn't really a new idea. This was the way our technical college did it in it's earliest days (in the early 70').
The lecturer would record the lecture once and then the students would sit in the classroom watching it on a tv. Sometimes the lecturer stood in the door watching as well because he wanted to know how well it worked.
It didn't work well.
It's not a good way to motivate the students and the contact with the teacher might be more important then one would imagine :)
Of course, nowadays there are a few long-distance courses that uses video materials but I still believe the most painless way to get yourself an education is to be at the same location as the teacher.
Recently an investigation was started on whether those tapes were ever archived, would be interesting to see how it looked.
The lecturer would record the lecture once and then the students would sit in the classroom watching it on a tv. Sometimes the lecturer stood in the door watching as well because he wanted to know how well it worked.
It didn't work well.
It's not a good way to motivate the students and the contact with the teacher might be more important then one would imagine
Of course, nowadays there are a few long-distance courses that uses video materials but I still believe the most painless way to get yourself an education is to be at the same location as the teacher.
Recently an investigation was started on whether those tapes were ever archived, would be interesting to see how it looked.
