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Re:Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin an... by vanderZwan on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:37PM (#15094670)
I guess you're talking about the point where it's more collaboration on a half-solved problem than data transfer about solidified knowledge? Because then I agree, but that's a really different type of knowledge transfer we're talking about then.
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Re:Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin an... by rocqua on Friday August 25, 2017 @03:17AM (#15096779)
There's a point before collaboration, where you ask a researcher to bring a student up to the level of the researcher. At that point, the student and researcher struggle with similar enough problems that the researcher can think from the students perspective.
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