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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The problem with subsidizing post-secondary education even more is that it doesn't address the real problem, which is the skyrocketing cost. Why, as access and enrollment has increased, has the cost risen at twice the rate of inflation for three decades now?
With the technology we have today, we can deliver post-secondary education far cheaper than we do. Why do we need to cram 300+ students into a hall to listen to a lecture from a professor who doesn't especially like to present lectures, when the same content could be delivered digitally when and where the student wants? Why are we stuck in a model of delivering education that has scarcely changed in 100 years?
Universities and colleges are one of the only institutions to have resisted the innovation and disruption of technology. I can't see them holding out much longer. Let's use technology to dramatically reduce costs instead of using money to prop up an anachronistic system.
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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
I've finished a half dozen certs and courses online in the last few years almost entirely online. I would be shocked if many courses students are taking nowadays aren't at least 80% online.
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Education without interaction is mostly meaningless. I think there are good cases to be made for online/virtual education, but a big part of higher education is learning how to work with other people, navigate other cultures, etc.
Technology has already made us more isolated. I'd hate to see us reduce the idea of higher education to sitting in front of a computer more.