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09 Jun 09
Will Colleges Soon Become Obsolete?
What it may well come down to, however, is basic economics, the very thing that has drives and governs change in almost every other area of our lives.
Wired Campus: Students Watch Lecture Videos in Fast Forward - Chronicle.com
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Al Ducharme, assistant dean of distance and distributed learning at the University of Central Florida, said that many students there speed up lecture videos so that they can watch a 50-minute lecture in about 35 minutes. “The information is coming so slowly, but students today can absorb the information much faster,” he said.
Sharing Nicely » Blog Archive » High-Speed Video Lectures
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Apparently students that access video lectures online like to speed them up. At the University of Taiwan, students watch calculus lectures between 1.6 and 2 times faster than they were recorded. Willem from the TU Delft reported that one of their students’ most used features was the ability to play the videos at double speed. And someone from MIT said the same was true for users of MIT OpenCourseWare.
ScienceDirect - Computers & Education : iTunes University and the classroom: Can podcasts replace Professors?
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Results indicated that students in the podcast condition who took notes while listening to the podcast scored significantly higher than the lecture condition.
When Professors Print Their Own Diplomas, Who Needs Universities? - Chronicle.com
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The unofficial students paid no tuition and got no formal credit, but they did end up with something tangible: a homemade certificate signed by Mr. Wiley
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