I think there's a couple parts: 1) digitizing the curriculum, which might include video, and 2) everything else.
I think Google would be great at the first one. I'm not sure how good we'd be at the second part, but I totally agree this is an important problem. My dad was a physics professor for 30+ years, so I've seen a lot of issues with the current model. I have to think there are ways to educate people better than we do it now. You can't tell me that in 20 years we'll still be using the same practices to educate people that we do now.
Yes there are some genuine problems with the idea, but nothing in the realm of impossibility IMO. It will need a reasonable amount of investment and time.
The thing about education system is that everyone knows its a problem and everyone knows it needs to be fixed but no one wants to be the first to jump in to it (I don't think Khan Academy counts).
I think the first effort is important and whoever does it first needs to set an example for everyone else to follow.
pavs, that was a very interesting set of suggestions. are you interested in this space? if so, would love to get in touch as I am thinking of doing something in it for my next venture.
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I think there's a couple parts: 1) digitizing the curriculum, which might include video, and 2) everything else.
I think Google would be great at the first one. I'm not sure how good we'd be at the second part, but I totally agree this is an important problem. My dad was a physics professor for 30+ years, so I've seen a lot of issues with the current model. I have to think there are ways to educate people better than we do it now. You can't tell me that in 20 years we'll still be using the same practices to educate people that we do now.
Yes there are some genuine problems with the idea, but nothing in the realm of impossibility IMO. It will need a reasonable amount of investment and time.
The thing about education system is that everyone knows its a problem and everyone knows it needs to be fixed but no one wants to be the first to jump in to it (I don't think Khan Academy counts).
I think the first effort is important and whoever does it first needs to set an example for everyone else to follow.
pavs, that was a very interesting set of suggestions. are you interested in this space? if so, would love to get in touch as I am thinking of doing something in it for my next venture.