Cornell university debate team Videos

I know this is a parody but you guys actually have some valid points. Well done.

Replacing Large Lectures with MOOCs and TVI This post can also be found at: //innovationmemes.blogspot.com/2013/02/replacing-large-lectures-with-moocs-and.html In many ways, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are similar to open online textbooks. They provide online versions of what printed textbooks offer and, in addition, they provide recorded lectures, online quizzes that can be automatically graded, and other functions that cannot be provided by a printed textbook. Since the University has a very long history of importing textbooks (and, to a lesser extent, helping faculty author textbooks) perhaps it would be helpful to consider how the University might import the content being developed for MOOCs and arrange for it to be used in conjunction with the facilities and resources that brick-and-mortar institutions have to offer. One way to do this would be to have students who attend the University take MOOCs; and, in addition, also provide them with small group learning environments similar to the small seminar rooms provided to graduate students. Undergraduates could view the recorded lectures provided by the MOOC as a group; and, as they do, they could work through problem sets and study questions to help them learn the material presented in the lecture. Some students could be trained to be small study group facilitators to take attendance, to make sure the other students have a chance to participate in the discussions, and to make sure the other students work through the problem sets. In addition, the University could provide rooms where students could take proctored exams. My former employer, UC Berkelely, has a long history of supporting small study groups that goes all the way back to Uri Treisman and programs he helped start at Berkeley such as the Minority Engineering Program and the Professional Development Program. Furthermore, the idea of having small groups of students watch recorded lectures together also has a long history that goes all the way back to J.F. Gibbons (Dean of Stanford's School of Engineering) and the innovation he introduced in the early seventies: Tutored Video Instruction (TVI). So, together these two ideas might help the University improve the quality of instruction and reduce the cost of instruction. Since MOOCs are like textbooks, importing MOOCs could provide the same cost savings that schools gain when they import textbooks. This is obvious if one considers how much it would cost for a University to develop all of the textbooks it uses in-house and from scratch. (If you are concerned about the high cost of commercial textbooks, see my blog post on replacing commercial textbooks with open textbooks: Two ways to reduce the cost of education. //innovationmemes.blogspot.com/2013/01/two-ways-to-reduce-cost-of-education.html ) Furthermore, by using MOOCs with TVI as a substitute for large lecture classes, students can learn by interacting with one another is a small seminar size learning environment instead of the depersonalized large lecture hall. If you are interested in learning more about MOOCs, online textbooks, TVI, and the history of the High Tech Small Study Group project that I tried to start at Berkeley in 1988 (which was based on the TVI idea), check out these two blog posts: The High Tech Small Study Group Saga //innovationmemes.blogspot.com/2010/09/high-tech-small-study-group-saga.html From Tutored Video Instruction, to Online Textbooks, to MOOCs //innovationmemes.blogspot.com/2013/01/from-tutored-video-instruction-to-moocs.html