Re: IFETS -adult education and pedagogy

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tom abeles (tabeles@tmn.com)
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:00:35 -0500 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:00:35 -0500
From: tom abeles <tabeles@tmn.com>
Subject: Re: IFETS -adult education and pedagogy

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Noel Chidwick wrote:
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> In Edinburgh in the last century students would pay to hear a
> particular lecturer. The better speakers drew the biggest crowds and
> therefore the bigger fee. Perhaps one model of on-line learning is to
> return to this idea. Obviously, it does not matter where in the world
> the lecturer lives, and the lecturer survives by his or her skill,
> knowledge, reputation and ability to moderate a good on-line conference.
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Murray Turoff has written an interesting paper where he developes the
economics of a university where all the faculty are masters- a small
nucleus of grand masters paid, perhaps 100K or more per year and
supported by a staff to put virtual space in place for these masters. A
very cheap and efficient way to get the best to the world at current
prices

Interestingly, a production line version of this is the practice of the
Open University of the UK designed to mass market this idea

thoughts?

tom abeles

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