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Originally Posted by GirlySports
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.
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The education flip model doesn't mean doing away with face-to-face interaction - of which there is precious little in today's undergradute environment. It flips what parts are done face-to-face and which are done independently. The traditional model delivers lectures face-to-face and has students do the coursework independently. The flip model delivers lectures independently (and far more efficiently and cheaper) while bringing students together in small groups, with facilitators, to do the coursework.
Universities are stubbornly resisting this new model because it's disruptive of traditional practices and threatens jobs - no need to have a student studying biochemistry in Calgary watch a lecture by a teacher based in Calgary when she can watch a lecture by the best biochemistry lecturer in the english language, regardless of where the lecturer is based.