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.
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.
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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.
Another factor in the cost of education is the outrageous private access journals limiting the ability of citizens to access what is often publicly subsidized research:
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While the public is often blocked from accessing academic journal articles, academics themselves have access to this content because universities pay for journal subscriptions, often at exorbitant prices. American academic libraries spend $1.7 billion annually on serial subscriptions (i.e. academic journals and other periodicals), and these costs continue to grow. In 2010, the University of California system threatened to boycott Nature Publishing Group after the publisher raised the average price of its journal subscriptions 400%, from $4,465 to more than $17,000 per journal. In 2012, Harvard University Library, the largest private library system in the world, sent a memo to faculty stating that it could no longer afford the $3.75 million it pays annually to journal providers. The library suggested a range of possible solutions, including renegotiating subscription contracts and encouraging faculty and students to submit papers to open-access journals.
Canadian universities are of course experiencing their own problems
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Think it's hard to make money in publishing in the digital age? Well, huge profits are still to be had – if you're a publisher of academic research journals.
While traditional book and magazine publishers struggle to stay afloat, research publishing houses have typical profit margins of nearly 40 per cent, says Vincent Larivière, a researcher at the University of Montreal's School of Library and Information Science.
Researchers rely on journals to keep up with the developments in their field. Most of the time, they access the journals online through subscriptions purchased by university libraries. But universities are having a hard time affording the soaring subscriptions, which are bundled so that universities effectively must pay for hundreds of journals they don't want in order to get the ones they do.
Larivière says the cost of the University of Montreal's journal subscriptions is now more than $7 million a year – ultimately paid for by the taxpayers and students who fund most of the university's budget. Unable to afford the annual increases, the university has started cutting subscriptions, angering researchers.
"The big problem is that libraries or institutions that produce knowledge don't have the budget anymore to pay for [access to] what they produce," Larivière said.
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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?
My guess is that its demand driven and supply inventory driven, not supply cost driven.
The rich getting richer and foreign rich money is a big growing population who can afford to pay a bunch more for higher education. And it's not like prestigious / semi prestigious universities keep popping up.
There are various models that are used in education and they vary from institution to institution. Not everyone learns the same way nor do they learn at the same pace. It is very difficult to take a class of 30-60 students and try to come up with a learning model that suits everyone. The best schools let you know up front what you are getting into and set the expectations early. Some have some flexibility to allow for personal learning style, but most of the time you need to find the right institution that offers you the educational experience you want. The idea that an institution has to bend over backwards to accommodate a student is ridiculous. When you have 20,000 to 50,000 students in your school, and 100+ students taking in a class, it is very difficult to have that face-to-face interaction as suggested. Once you get to grad school that model rarely works at all.
Education is a personal interest and should be treated as such. For every student that wants a group learning environment there are just as many that hate working in them, and with many good reasons. I completely understand the desire for self-directed study and individual work. I also understand the point of social interaction and learning to work together. Students should have access to both, but at different institutions with different services.
Night one of the DNC drew slightly higher ratings than night 1 of the RNC. Although the headline simply states that ratings were "higher", the difference is only half a million viewers or so.
To be honest, I'm not sure what to do with stats like this anymore. Viewership of the RNC was down slightly over past years, but I wonder if that isn't simply an effect of people generally watching less television than they used to.
EDIT to add: like the RNC, ratings for the DNC are down slightly from
2012. Apparently these ratings may not capture Bernie's speech though, so there may be an adjustment later.
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Night one of the DNC drew slightly higher ratings than night 1 of the RNC. Although the headline simply states that ratings were "higher", the difference is only half a million viewers or so.
To be honest, I'm not sure what to do with stats like this anymore. Viewership of the RNC was down slightly over past years, but I wonder if that isn't simply an effect of people generally watching less television than they used to.
Yeah. Total impact is likely bigger because you can get passive impact from Facebook posts, tweets, instagrams, etc. The total reach is really hard to gauge now and I think TV numbers tell us nothing
Yeah but who gives a #### about the true value of ratings? Being able to stuff these ratings into the face of Mr. "I always get yuuuge ratings" is all that matters. Pocahontas outrated the Oompa Loompa. Sad!
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Night one of the DNC drew slightly higher ratings than night 1 of the RNC. Although the headline simply states that ratings were "higher", the difference is only half a million viewers or so.
To be honest, I'm not sure what to do with stats like this anymore. Viewership of the RNC was down slightly over past years, but I wonder if that isn't simply an effect of people generally watching less television than they used to.
EDIT to add: like the RNC, ratings for the DNC are down slightly from
2012. Apparently these ratings may not capture Bernie's speech though, so there may be an adjustment later.
I also wonder if the new numbers account for people streaming, etc? I believe overall TV numbers are down
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I also wonder if the new numbers account for people streaming, etc? I believe overall TV numbers are down
I think that's right, and I don't think these numbers include streaming and online access. I could be wrong, but I do think Nielsen ratings are of somewhat limited utility nowadays.
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Oh FFS. To hell with Lena Dunham. How does she get a speaking spot. What a tool.
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I believe she endorsed Hillary a looong time ago. As long as she keeps her clothes on it should just unlistenable instead of unlistenable and unwatchable
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Oh FFS. To hell with Lena Dunham. How does she get a speaking spot. What a tool.
I'm stunned she still has a show. What was intriguing and novel at first has become torturous to watch. She's a terrible writer, full of herself, and insufferably pretentious and self-righteous.
Can't wait until she's no longer in entertainment.
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I'm watching the roll call/nomination and there is either some sort weird technical issue at the convention or the Democrat state reps are idiots because each one of them starts talking before the Secretary finishes her introduction. It is ridiculous.
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The fence, which appears to be about 8 feet tall, is intended to keep out any individuals with whom Democratic Party leaders, delegates and other liberal elites would rather not mingle.
