[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Computers should replace university professors first. They could certainly be programmed to spew the Leftist line just as 95% of professors do.”

Actually I think that's true of most education. From grade school through college.

Get the best instructors, on tape. Then computerize it with quizzes and progress indicators.

There is absolutely no reason we need hundreds of thousands of math instructors, when computers could teach better, cleaner, consistently at the rate of the student, as opposed to the rate of the slowest student.

The big fad in the early 1960s in math education was self-paced learning. My 8th grade algebra teacher gave us a workbook and told us to work the problems at our own pace. Most of us spent the class time daydreaming or passing notes back and forth. It took me several years of “hard knocks” in future conventional math classes to make up for that one disastrous class.

The future is now:

khanacademy.org

[DannyTN]

Khanacademy is good.
Udacity.com is also good.
I’m halfway through udacity’s intro to Physics. And I just stated about a week ago.

[DannyTN]

Khanacademy is good.
Udacity.com is also good.
I’m halfway through udacity’s intro to Physics. And I just stated about a week ago.

[riverdawg]

I spent a few minutes at the Khan Academy site with some topics I know well and have taught at the college level. The videos were not very well done at all. If this is the future of instruction, I am glad that I went to college and a grad-school program in the “old days” where I experienced excellent instruction by clear, inspiring faculty.