In this day and age, when the slides to so many academic lectures are available for free online, a professor standing in front of a chalkboard in the same room as you seems to give more value for money.
What value do you get from a professor reading his slides to you, versus just downloading them and reading them at your leisure? With the professor at the chalkboard, however, you feel like you are getting more of his thought processes with more spontaneity. And more of a feeling that it is OK and encouraged to stop him with questions, and maybe even diverge from the day's planned lecture on occasion.
I wonder if universities with professors standing in front of chalkboards will start to attract the best students over time.
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In this day and age, when the slides to so many academic lectures are available for free online, a professor standing in front of a chalkboard in the same room as you seems to give more value for money.
What value do you get from a professor reading his slides to you, versus just downloading them and reading them at your leisure? With the professor at the chalkboard, however, you feel like you are getting more of his thought processes with more spontaneity. And more of a feeling that it is OK and encouraged to stop him with questions, and maybe even diverge from the day's planned lecture on occasion.
I wonder if universities with professors standing in front of chalkboards will start to attract the best students over time.