Self education

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
"Students have been handed another excuse to skip class from an unusual quarter. New psychological research suggests that university students who download a podcast lecture achieve substantially higher exam results than those who attend the lecture in person."Source

I had an argument with someone about the undergraduate system and its usefulness contrasted to self-learning, at least I know I am not an idiot.I do think we are in store for a revolution in how we think about education, time will tell.

Update:
Maybe it already started:source

2 comments:

Dovid said...

Agree with you completely. Many medical schools now have recordings of every lecture available.

Rationally pious said...

Yeah, it's about time we stop spending so much money, and not credit self education.