Academia 2.0

A short documentary we did for KSU. Deals with integration of new technologies and their impact on the academic universe.

{Please note, that this is a highly condensed version of the original documentary. It has been formatted, altered and shortened to fit the 10min time barrier.}

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Learning
• education
• technology
• documentary

[melstj89]

Nowhere in this video or "A Vision of Students Today" is the class size addressed. Large lecture halls are not conducive to learning. Adding technology to large lecture halls won't do in itself. Make classes smaller, interactive (in the traditional and technological ways) and relevant.

[mah9999]

You're exactly right. In the longer version of this piece, that exact point is emphasized, however we had to cut it out for time restraints.

[ElPoojmar]

I'm a professor.

I would like to respond to the comments about students being "force fed" information "that the professor thinks is important". Frankly, professors usually have a better idea of what is most relevant to a student's education than the student does. Actually, that's why there are professors in the first place. We are like personal trainers for the mind; we push you to do something that you don't want to do now, but you thank us (and pay us) for it in the end.

[addymike]

Some lectures remind me of Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller. So Boring. When I first started college I never showed up to class and I did fine through use of the internet and self-learning. All of a sudden, attendance became a huge issue and I feel discouraged that in some classes I might score in the top five percentile only to get twenty/thirty points taken off my exams for non-attendance. I am going to finish college just for that peice of paper. The time and money I spent went to waste.

[MrSinkukku]

When we regard a lecture as not useful one, We leave our ignorance out of consideration.

[LBGTech314]

@ElPoojmar The reason students believe they are being "force fed" information "the professor thinks is important" is because we have no reason to believe it is important. Yes you may know more about what is relevant to our education than we do, so tell us why it is relevant. Tell us why we need to learn early US History if I'm an Engineer, Computer Scientist, or English major. Make us believe we need to know the information, then we might just thank you in the end.

[DimebagVision]

@ElPoojmar

Yeah, you push your lectures onto students without explaining and educating us in what you're lecturing about. The majority of professors are a walking text book.

Students have to binge information down their throats to the point where they are sick, then purge it all out for the almighty final exams, thus never recalling your lectures as a resource for the rest of their lives. Except when students say "don't take this professor, he's an ass."

Enjoy your wage.

[rcpfxrt]

too long, redundant, old info, and facts dropping in letter-by-letter too difficult to read in time alloted. Seeminingly assumptive. "Make learning fun" Don't need classroom experience" etc. not exactly stated but implied and not true. Hybrid mix is best IMO. Online is inherently distractive. Why not just issue sample tests and tell students to go find what they need and come back for actual tests?

[77jamieclark]

Who gives a shit? The shitty world is fucked up, mostly because of MEN, they are the worthless, pathetic, weak creatures, and the world needs to be rid of them!!!!!

[Cuda11]

Academia is dead! learning can be done faster and better outside of universities, renting an office space and committing yourself to learning a subject has far less distractions. going to university is simply a strategy to earn more money and maybe socialize. NO LEARNING ABOUT IT! I'm not against earning more money or socializing but there are more clever ways of doing so without spending thousands of dollars.

[SaraTen]

OK I totally just watched this video to see if I could spot myself walking around campus :P

But in response to the vid:

The sad thing is that a lot of lectures I have endured were really just my teacher READING me a textbook.

Putting it up on powerpoint never changes that...and if universities don't start realizing we can get our information on our own and get ourselves certified without them, well they are going to lose a lot of money.

[gezeitenwende]

In fact, my most successful lecture came from a guy who used just chalk and blackboard, explaining his topic with a lot of enthusiasm, heating up the room with his energy - and I remember almost everything. Where's that in front of a screen?!

[gezeitenwende]

Thanks for all the advertising here, IT lobby at its best.

Some things are forgotten: I had some brilliant lectures with a lot of interaction, with a well-knowing lecturer who was open for relevant aside-questions as well. Being in a seminar with others is also better than sitting in front of my laptop, listening to the screen. I tend to forget what I see and hear on the screen very, very soon, whereas what I learn in a room with others, or from a good lecture, stays in my head for a long time.