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Re:Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few... by _dps on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:22PM (#26756944)
Educational Information has already been democratized by MIT Open Courseware, Khan, and others. But Education itself is an interactive human activity carried out by an expert professional. Some of those professionals will be better at educating than others, and people will compete for access to those better educators. There is nothing about Education as a profession that suggests it can be democratized, because the fundamental operational units (educators) are not scalable the way copying texts or videos is.
Re:Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few... by soldehierro on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:49PM (#26757162)
As a current university student, I am painfully aware that there are good educators, okay educators, and piss-poor educators, but I do think we can expand our pool of very talented educators by making the necessary investments and making teaching a more lucrative field.