Re: 22 Papa Ray and 31 L3

The days are probably numbered for the university-level lecture hall class. If it’s a matter of students passively receiving an information dump from the instructor, remote learning is a superior model anyway. You’re not limited by geography or the size of your lecture hall.

I suspect that a model of self-taught ‘students’ actively pursuing and engaging quality learning materials remotely will become the accepted norm for many areas of advanced education.

But there’s still a place for the classroom. As L3 describes, it’s a meta-learning environment. Learning how to learn. Or learning a new way to approach problems or situations.

In law school, we had to learn ‘the law’ outside of class. This provided the baseline of material through which, in the classroom, we learned how to analyze and make legal argument. (AKA, learning how to think like a lawyer.)

(I’m not sure what this education has done for my mental well-being. But at least it’s provided a good living…)