From recently on YouTube Online Berkeley Uiniversity courses – http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley.
I am wondering if one day CBTs (computer-based trainings), expectedly to be more effective and interactive in near future, replace the classical courseroom lessons with teachers/instructors. Isn’t it the typical cycle, anyway? Computers replacing humans on repetitive daily tasks. It has been already widely applied on simple introductory courses in many universities anyway for a long time (just thinking back we took such courses in 1999).
Also, providing video tutorials rather than text tutorials are getting popular as well. Though online degree programs should really improve a lot in terms of interactivity, flexibility, content richness in order to replace classical approach. Just simple slides with audio commentary and some video illustrations and some FAQ sections will not solve it. Video records of the classroom courses is one approach, with teleconferencing/interactive chat integrated into it. Such attendance from your computer gives you immediate access to other resources like Google (and think about that Google is digitizing all the books from the libraries of the biggest universities!), and VoIP and messaging applications are getting more and more advanced to provide flowless communication. And what a relief it would give to all those people who wants to study in good (foreign) universities but have difficulty in finding resources, scholarships, time for university degrees!
Anyway, this was just some messy thoughts about online education.
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