Should Your Professor Get 'Naked'?

Many teachers have always assigned advance reading from textbooks---to be done before class so that informed discussion is what the class time is to be used for.

Are we saying here that a "naked professor" would also post his outlines and powerpoints in advance on a website, so that a student should more or less have "heard" the old-time lectures before arriving to class?

The next question is: If this can be done, why not also video the best lectures from the best professors AND the best classroom discussions from last term, duplicate them, and cut half the cost out of college?

I'll bet I know the answer to why THAT would meet universal resistance, and I'll bet you do too. But, hey, it's something that couldn't be done a thousand years ago---and now now it can be. Uh, oh. Professors might find themselves as laid-off as everyone else whose job was replaced by a computer.

Muser of NM 11:04AM August 19, 2009