[GOPGuide]

In addition to providing more online classes, I'm also in favor of allowing students to skip the core curriculum, or go through a much more condensed core curriculum, to put these Marxist liberal arts professors out of business.

Most students not majoring in the liberal arts would avoid the brainwashing, fluff filled, core curriculum classes if for no other reason than to focus their energy and time on their major and graduate earlier.

[ronnietherocket2]

I had one professor whose Power point slides alternated between being filled with three paragraphs of solid text, nothing to illustrate what was important and slides with pictures on them and nothing saying what the picture was doing there so you could go back over the lectures at a later date and piece together what happened.

[ronnietherocket2]

I had one professor whose Power point slides alternated between being filled with three paragraphs of solid text, nothing to illustrate what was important and slides with pictures on them and nothing saying what the picture was doing there so you could go back over the lectures at a later date and piece together what happened. Though I am not in favor of switching to podcasts or recording videos of a lecture and requiring students to view them.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Or butt heads with the Marxists directly — take all political science.

[Paleo Conservative]

Bowen advises fellow academics to stop wasting precious class time on announcements and logistical details. Instead, they should e-mail that information to their tech-savvy students, he says. Professors should also rely on e-mail to send follow-up comments from class discussions and to point students to relevant articles in the media or school newspaper.

Where has he been the last 10-15 years? When I went back to school a decade ago, just about every class had a it's own email list on a list server.

[stefanbatory]

isn’t capitalism awesome? create a problem and capitalism and technology create a solution for it...

[Nosterrex]

I have mixed feelings about this. There is no way to replace the learning that takes place within classrooms and between students, not to mention the learning that takes place outside of the classroom in a campus setting. I’ve taken classes online, and I’ve taken classes within a traditional setting. I prefer the traditional classroom; however, there are so many great resources online. If a person is self-motivated and wants to learn, he can find whatever he wants. I never had a class in philosophy in college, but I became interested in the subject matter I have found tons of resources on iTunes. You can learn as much as you wish. The problem is that universities are inundated with hippies from the 70’s, and things won’t get better until they are dead or retired.