On 12/10/2010, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > His agenda is to cut his wages bill. (Vice-chancellors are not picked > for their fluffy goodwill to all humanity.) But this is the guy who > runs the business saying "holy crap we're fucked."
The thing is that free sources of information have been available for practically forever; they're called 'libraries'. They didn't replace the need for people known as teachers/lecturers/tutors either, nor the need for examinations to prove that people could actually do stuff, both of which are functions provided by universities. So I suspect, at the moment, that he's being pessimistic. Still, in theory, a really good automated educational computer based learning system could change all that I suppose, but I've never heard of one that good. > - d. -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
