The overall pattern of the results shows that students of less experienced and less qualified professors perform significantly better in the contemporaneous course being taught. In contrast, the students of more experienced and more highly qualified introductory professors perform significantly better in the follow-on courses.
although in the United States technological progress requires the labor force to have ever greater skills—a high school diploma was sufficient for our parents, whereas an undergraduate degree is barely sufficient for the office worker today—the education system has been unable to provide enough of the labor force with the necessary education…
it is very hard to improve the quality of education, for improvement requires real and effective policy change in an area where too many vested interests favor the status quo. Moreover, any change will require years to take effect…
general university policy. “No online credit from any institution can be used toward graduation,” he writes. Really! That’s remarkable. Harvard believes that this particular mode of communication–one that has become an integral part of the way people in modern society live and interact, to the point where roughly one quarter of all college students take courses online–is so illegitimate that the university categorically refuses to recognize courses so taught…
Discriminating against a widely used method of teaching based solely on the mode of delivery irrespective of the course content, curriculum, instructor, assessment standards, etc. strikes me as a remarkably retrograde approach to higher learning for a major research university in 2010...
This is pretty amazing in both content and presentation. The whole thing is worth watching, but the education specific stuff starts around the 5:30 mark.
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