On 12/10/2010, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
His agenda is to cut his wages bill. (Vice-chancellors
are not picked
for their fluffy goodwill to all humanity.) But this is the guy who
runs the business saying "holy crap we're fucked."
The thing is that free sources of information have been available for
practically forever; they're called 'libraries'.
They didn't replace the need for people known as
teachers/lecturers/tutors either, nor the need for examinations to
prove that people could actually do stuff, both of which are functions
provided by universities.
So I suspect, at the moment, that he's being pessimistic.
Still, in theory, a really good automated educational computer based
learning system could change all that I suppose, but I've never heard
of one that good.
- d.
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-Ian Woollard