College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All

[Igel]

1. And the first thing that comes to mind are technicalities.

How do you manage certification and credentialing?

How do you curb cheating and ghosting, having people do the work for you?

Will it create a raft of pointless low-worth degress in English and sociology and other non-lab courses? I.e., will it lead to a kind of Gresham's law applied to credentialing paper?


It's already been suggesting that flipping the classroom will lead to a revising of how to teach high school. They won't need many teachers. Have one teacher record the lectures or direct instruction and a corps of lesser-trained assistants to actually assist students. Perhaps have one master teacher per district, or outsource the master-teacher work to a consultant that will implement state-mandated content in a single lecture for a topic for the state.


Hard enough to keep kids from "playing school" in order to avoid learning--do the work in a pro forma fashion, getting good grades by making sure that all the blanks are filled in on paper but not worrying about the blanks being filled in in their brains.