Education and Innovation in the End Times, Part 5 (April 14, 2010)

Presentation by Prof. Aaron Lanterman, given as part of the IEEE Georgia Tech Student Branch Faculty Presentation series. Part 5 of 7.

I tape the lectures for my special topics classes on "Electronics for Music Synthesis" and "Multicore and GPU Programming for Video Games." Why are professors like me giving the same live lecture every year? You can find lectures on many topics online - what can the university offer? At least part of what the university offers are things like discussion sections, not just in humanities classes, but engineering ones as well; MIT has discussion sections in 6.033, in which the students discuss readings like in a humanities class. Universities can also offer labs with sophisticated expensive equipment. But why does that need to be confined to universities? Places called "Makerspaces" and "Hackerspaces" are cropping up to play that kind of role.

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Education

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• education bubble
• college
• universities
• makers
• discussion sections
• open courseware
• hackerspaces
• makerspaces