The entirety of the curricula—lectures, online classes, etc. (basically everything except in-person work) should be available online, to anyone, for free. While creating this is a significant capital expense, once created it takes a lot off the shoulders of individual schools and teachers, especially the ones with less resources to devote to the curricula. This also makes it available in other countries, at military bases, and for homeschooled children.
I find it quite sad that the existing countries don’t do this already. A reminder that we do not live in a sane world.
Considering that many countries already have mandatory education and centrally planned curriculum… making the textbooks available online for free would be the obvious next step. Instead, all governments, and all their departments of education with thousands of employees were waiting for Salman Khan to start doing it alone.
I have these moments every so often when I think to myself, “The entire MIT undergraduate curriculum is available for free online. …why do we need college, exactly?”
And so on.
I have another post on my substack (I’ll get around to posting it here at some point) about the kind of gains we should be making in educational technology, but haven’t been.
I find it quite sad that the existing countries don’t do this already. A reminder that we do not live in a sane world.
Considering that many countries already have mandatory education and centrally planned curriculum… making the textbooks available online for free would be the obvious next step. Instead, all governments, and all their departments of education with thousands of employees were waiting for Salman Khan to start doing it alone.
I completely agree.
I have these moments every so often when I think to myself, “The entire MIT undergraduate curriculum is available for free online. …why do we need college, exactly?”
And so on.
I have another post on my substack (I’ll get around to posting it here at some point) about the kind of gains we should be making in educational technology, but haven’t been.