[ExI] Greener Urban Environment

spike spike66 at att.net
Wed Jun 7 18:02:22 UTC 2017


 

 

>… On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace
Subject: Re: [ExI] Greener Urban Environment

 

>>…Modern people can learn online all the stuff we ancients learned the traditional way at enormous expense…spike

 

>…Long ago, when people were still people (around 1966 for me), at the U of Alabama they put in a TV course for Psych 101.  …  

 

BillW, compare and contrast please the content and quality of those 1966 lectures to the online content available today, then comment if you wish.

>…Why not do like the old lawyers did:  study it on their own and pass the bar exam?  No law school courses needed.  Why couldn't this be done for math and many other subjects?

We already have a system of establishing credentials for some professions, which is used to grant titles to those who pass.  Medicine, law, accounting and engineering are four examples.  In those areas, as far as I know it is difficult to even qualify to sit for the boards exam without a college degree in the topic.  Engineering you can, but it requires additional time in apprenticeship, something not really available to medics or lawyers.

>…Labs are not mentioned.  Aren't they useful in many cases?  Take chemistry online and never get the opportunity to blow up the lab?  bill w

Lab courses might be the prime candidate for being replaced by sims, since lab courses are relatively expensive and possibly dangerous.  As in pilot school, not only are sims good enough to do all the training, they are preferred.  You can throw situations at the trainees too dangerous for real-life.  A person can get a commercial pilot’s license without ever having left the ground.

We can sim chemistry labs already.  Don’t know about biology labs.

spike

 

 

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