Education nowadays should be mostly computerized

In the last round, I am not going to reiterate what I counter-argued in the last round. It would be a waste. You could read the last research that he posted. It has more valid points pertaining to the arguments or point of view that I adapt. 2009 - Ferguson, J., Tryjankowski, A. Online Versus Face-to-face Learning: Looking at Modes of Instruction in Master's-level Courses Journal of Further and Higher Education Vol. 33, Issue 3, August. 219-228 or you can read the extract that I posted in the previous round. About how long term memory works and the techniques behind storing something in it, you could read online. Use google or forums to find out, dont enroll to any courses ;) Research also the difference between a causal relationship and a simple correlation between two variables. I am not going to lecture the debate on what I studied years ago, he is too ignorant to listen. In this round, I will talk about a possible applicability of the technology to a university. I will take harvard and its business management course. I took a business management course in kings college London university, so I am familiar with the difficulties. I will outline some the difficulties that existed back in the time. I dont think it would be so wise for the debater to deny my experience, because it was and is pretty common to many other places. So here what the difficulties were: - Not enough resources for all students. Books in the library were limited to few students. You had to wait for students to return particular books or order them online. - Lectures werent recorded. If you missed a particular point in the lecture or simply didnt attend it (perhaps was ill), thats it, there is no other way to refer to it. That could mean that you could write irrelevant things in the exam, which would lower your score. - Lecture notes most of the time didnt become available online. - Some lecturers were very bad, which lowered the score of all the class or big part of the class. - Sections of the material were difficult. Some sections in managerial finance and managerial economics were difficult even to bright students. - There was no assistance (or extremely very minimal) from the lecturer outside the class or from any of the member of the group. - There was no preparation before the exam. So how some of the points that I mentioned can be fixed? - Put as many resources online.. So accessibility is very easy by all students. - Record all lectures. Dont record new ones unless they are better than the old ones. That also means, bad lecturers should not participate in the recordings. If a student, decides to go to classes, and he finds out the lecturer is bad, he can always fall back on the online previously recorded lecturers. - Use university forums to create a community that helps. - (Preferable) Create some web apps to help students drill some of the material. So for example, if you are taking a spanish course. Create some Spanish quiz apps. So how can all that be applied to a university such as Harvard. Such a university needs to shift its business model to cover greater number of students. From a hundred to thousands or even more. That means shift learning online. Through online courses. I know the debater will bitch about he fact that he provided some research for face-to-face learning being superior to online learning. But lets assume it is true, and there is a difference of lets say 10%. All what a student has to do is try 10% harder than the student that is present on campus. .. or alternatively attempt to come to US and pay quarter of million tuition fees (or $158,800 if you decide on taking MBA). My opponent will ignore that point and go back to reiterate his old statement "that face-to-face interactions are necessary for long term memory encoding..", that is because he is either totally oblivious to what I write or simply ignorant, or thick as a brick.. I dont even know. Okay, so Harvard, could transform to online learning gradually without hurting its profitability. First, it could shift all its resources (apart from the books) online, including recorded lectures. Wait a generation of students and conduct research to see the effects of the change that it made. If the change didnt havent a bad effect or if it had a positive effect it should keep the change, and incorporate it to an online program, which would allow it to profit more and make education accessible and cheap to a lot of potential students. Online students would mostly have to travel to the campus to attend the exam, and pay for the marker to check his/her exam. With time, the university could build an online community that would support different students, and build apps that assist students in their learning. Thats it! a very easy implementation.