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Re: The future of teaching
Steve Mizrach (SEEKER1@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU)
Fri, 23 Sep 1994 01:12:30 +0000
>I think that in the near future we will have large lecture classes
>with discussion sections handled through electronic media. This way
>universities can keep up high enrollments and faculty can teach as
>little as they want.
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>James M. (Tim) Wallace
>Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
>North Carolina State University
>Box 8107, Raleigh, NC 27695-8107
>tel: 919-515-2491
>email: Tim@server.sasw.ncsu.edu <Internet>
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In one of Philip K. Dick's stories, students are taught history by android
simulacra of historical figures. For example, an Abraham Lincoln "teaching
machine" teaches about the Civil War. I find this a more attractive
alternative. But the idea of virtual classrooms - presumably facilitated by
telepresent human teachers rather than AIs - still is a nifty one...
Yours,
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