| College dropout here. Anyway, my vastly-less-expensive aborted "education" really isn't the point. > I'm not sure what the UX will be for replicating this discussion setting, and invoking individuals to share from their experience. How do you validate the quality of the comments? "Then a box pops up on the screen with the words “Cold Call.” The student has 30 seconds to a few minutes to type a response to a question and is then prodded to assess comments made by other students. Eventually there is a multiple-choice quiz to gauge mastery of the concept." "He unveiled the existence of a studio, built in collaboration with Boston’s public television station, that allows a professor to stand in a pit before a horseshoe of 60 digital “tiles,” or high-definition screens with the live images and voices of geographically dispersed participants." > These are all though issues to solve, and I'm glad HBS is actively tackling it. I'm looking forward to seeing if they succeed. Did you read the whole article, or stop in the middle? Case based method sounds like a much better idea than wasting time listening to a lecture. I think what they mention in the article is a good start. The type of disruption faced by Harvard and other universities applies not only to that industry but to many other, perhaps most, industries. Maybe instead of worrying so much about saving their own asses, some of these overpaid Harvard geniuses could come up with an idea or two about how to adjust our underlying "economic" structures to align with new technological realities. By the way, did you ask those "former PE guys" how they actually valuated WhatsApp? Did you ask the bankers who worked in Europe what they did to fix the "economic" structure so that the global "economic" crisis would not threaten the physical health and well-being of so many people? |