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by newsyyswen 1776 days ago
The article also points out that only 1/4 of the classrooms are A/V-equipped. It might be a cost thing.
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Yeah, webcams are prohibitively expensive for a University.

No. This is because remote learning makes these institutions obsolete and they're going to continue throwing their reputation around to try to prevent that.

Yeah exactly, because the only power of a university is that they keep the material they teach top secret. Just imagine if you could just go into a store and buy textbooks! What a crazy world that would be! Everyone would be a genius and have every degree imaginable!
That's the way its treated though; everyone assumes you don't know what you're doing if you haven't been to university because there's some top-secret stuff there that you couldn't have possibly found somewhere else.
Here’s a clue: _finding_ the material isn’t the problem.