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Re:A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life by robotresearcher on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:38PM (#24012965)
Why do you think universities still give lectures, as the (contemporary) material has been available in written form for a few hundred years? Thousands of professionals, most of them smart and well-intentioned, have had these choices since the advent of cheap printing. Yet lectures today would be recognizable to the ancient Greeks. Why?
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Re:A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life by mindvirus on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:52PM (#24013145)
That's a good question. I think two things:

1. High quality video recording and transmission is still relatively new technology, and it seems most lectures are audio visual performances.

2. There hasn't been a push for a paradigm shift. Lectures work well enough, and have lots of benefits like creating a gathering of people. But does COVID change that?

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