Re:Personalized Education -- how would you do it?
by rms on Friday December 21, 2007 @05:32AM
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With regards to Wikipedia prerequisites: while they aren't explicit, usually they are linked in the article. For the Heine-Borel theorem, I think if you understood the Wikipedia articles subset, Euclidean Space, closed space, bounded set, open cover, compact space, metric space, complete space, and totally bounded you'd be pretty much set. Of course, these articles have their own prerequisites, like set notaiton.
For instance, given the article about the Heine-Borel theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heine-Borel_theorem) I'd love to know which articles I'd have to read before it will start to make sense.
About personalized education: I think it's going to be huge, (good human teachers will always be better, but who can afford private sessions with good teachers?). I'm working on it as well.
But you need a lot of knowledge about the domain you're teaching, apart from all the usual technical bagage. Finding co-founders or employees with both these skills is awfully hard.