Incoming links: Text is cheaper than video
Force public university teachers to publish their teaching material with an open license Updated 2025-02-22 +Created 2024-09-03
With CC BY-SA of course. Not the evil CC BY-NC-SA.
Public university and also universities with charity status, e.g. since Section "Most British universities are registered as charities".
Any lectures must be recorded. But of course, text is cheaper than video.
Just fucking pay teachers a decent salary comparable to industry instead of basically requiring them to try and sell their knowledge to complement their income. They must get paid, and their knowledge must
We don't need that many teachers teaching the same subjects over and over. We just need a few good men and women who can truly teach the masses. And we must pay those men and women a decent wage.
The perfect platform for this will of course be OurBigBook.com ;-)
The cheapest and most resilient way to publish text content humanity has achieved so far.
Some tests:
- github.com/cirosantilli/jekyll-cheat: cirosantilli.com/jekyll-cheat
- Test with a
.nojekyllfile. - github.com/cirosantilli/test-gh-pages-min: cirosantilli.com/test-gh-pages-min. Minimal version of the above.
Keep the example/theory ratio high, very, very high.
For natural sciences, add as many reproducible experiment images/videos/descriptions as you can.
Tell students to:
- make suggestions to the course material themselves, since you have used text and published your source.Review their suggestions, and accept the best ones.
- answer the questions of other students on your online forum. Let them work instead of you.
Praise those that do this very highly, and give them better grades if you have that superpower.
This is part of a larger concept Ciro Santilli holds dear: don't just consume, but also produce.
Whatever you do, even if it is playing video games: if you manage to produce related content that will interest other people, and possibly allow you to get paid, it will much much fun to do that thing.
Online and free. Pay only for exams, i.e. exam as a service. Almost perfect according to Ciro Santilli's idea.
TODO is teaching material open or not?
Asked: twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1687865554722562048
An ultra-low-cost college degree by Shai Reshef (2014)
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