You're right, and I hope we'll see more innovation in this area, but I don't think it's reasonable (or a good idea) to expect Stanford professors to try to attack two very hard problems at once at this stage:
- Scale traditional educational techniques (lectures, homeworks, schedule) to a class size of 100,000 people
- Come up with an altogether new way to teach and assess students by taking advantage of the web
It's probably a good idea to figure out the bugs in solving the first problem before tackling the second.
- Scale traditional educational techniques (lectures, homeworks, schedule) to a class size of 100,000 people
- Come up with an altogether new way to teach and assess students by taking advantage of the web
It's probably a good idea to figure out the bugs in solving the first problem before tackling the second.