When some idea flashes in your mind and you want to bounce it off some people, you always get this typical replies....ah someone else has done similar things, ah if it was that easy why not xxx company or yyy company not implement it, some say Ideas are dime a dozen. I would say that ideas as as valuable as implementing it, the guys with money dont have ideas and the guys with ideas dont have money to implement them. So as you can see ...its a sort of an equilibrium out there. But if you get to the investor side, you may not like to give out free money to someone who would take it and vanish, or to someone who doesnt know how to do what he says. Now getting it is more like a game one needs to play to convince someone to bet on you.
Let me get back to the idea......
I dont know about others but i had tough time in schools and colleges, where those teachers were either sub standard or didnt know how to teach or didnt know what to teach. I am not a rich brat to attend some state of the art schools, so had to settle between top end and horrible govt run school. As the population increases, even sub standard schools at nook and corner gets its name and fame...once this happens, you find it hard to put kids in that school or need to shell out a fortune to get in. The schools are generally run in bad taste, you pay the teachers rather poor salary but make them work for long hours. This combo is dangerous as you will have to settle on lower quality of teachers or teachers who take up this profession because they couldnt find a better job. Now this triggers a sense of dis-satisfaction in the eco-system where the future generation is learning stuff. The costs are spiralling, so this pushes up the corruption levels ... as parents of these kids have to find sources to fund education, the tuitions, the donations, the extra costs in the form of books, gadgets, projects et al.
Now i can think of only way to reduce costs or keep them stable is to adopt technology as a tool to make it effective and efficient. The cable TV industry have hit the saturation and are now implementing broad band connections, movies on demand etc etc to give some room for revenue. So why not use these cable infrastructure to beam in classes and courses for not so famous or sub standard places? The school which has good infrastructure and have good teachers would license this technology to not so good ones and still maintain the same level of quality. Now one can argue that top end schools charge a lot of money and by licensing the course programs they are making money no doubt but what if their enrollments drop? what if smart ones think why pay so much ..why not enroll in cheap schools and still get that knowledge? Now this is one thing which one has to decide on ... to adopt the technology.
One way of using technology is to lessen burden on over worked teachers, teach not so efficient teachers to how things must be done, make learning a better experience by giving more visual viewpoints of concepts and being clear in what one is explaining. This one will bring in an increase in the quality of education and the worth for all the time in school. Important of all is the learning experience and not forgetting it. How many times have u watched a same movie twice? You generally dont as it will keep all those embedded in your brain.....same way all these fundas and basics are into you forever. Then there is a relief of re-viewing the class again and again till you get things clearer. I am not saying replace everything with technology and robots, i am promoting technology as a tool not a substitute for human touch. Well teachers can still be around to answer the questions of curious ones, involve in class discussions and giving that extra things to kids.
Now coming to economics.....yearly license fee to be paid to the schools which provide the material, monthly subscription to the cable operators, variable pricing on streaming only, on demand, repeated viewing, hardware costs to encrypt and decrypt the signals ...so as not to steal and violate copyright laws. A surprise squad to check and book culprits who would record and not pay the license and who may sell things off the shelf and make quick money.
So again....anyone willing to value this more than my 2 cents :D ?
Let me get back to the idea......
I dont know about others but i had tough time in schools and colleges, where those teachers were either sub standard or didnt know how to teach or didnt know what to teach. I am not a rich brat to attend some state of the art schools, so had to settle between top end and horrible govt run school. As the population increases, even sub standard schools at nook and corner gets its name and fame...once this happens, you find it hard to put kids in that school or need to shell out a fortune to get in. The schools are generally run in bad taste, you pay the teachers rather poor salary but make them work for long hours. This combo is dangerous as you will have to settle on lower quality of teachers or teachers who take up this profession because they couldnt find a better job. Now this triggers a sense of dis-satisfaction in the eco-system where the future generation is learning stuff. The costs are spiralling, so this pushes up the corruption levels ... as parents of these kids have to find sources to fund education, the tuitions, the donations, the extra costs in the form of books, gadgets, projects et al.
Now i can think of only way to reduce costs or keep them stable is to adopt technology as a tool to make it effective and efficient. The cable TV industry have hit the saturation and are now implementing broad band connections, movies on demand etc etc to give some room for revenue. So why not use these cable infrastructure to beam in classes and courses for not so famous or sub standard places? The school which has good infrastructure and have good teachers would license this technology to not so good ones and still maintain the same level of quality. Now one can argue that top end schools charge a lot of money and by licensing the course programs they are making money no doubt but what if their enrollments drop? what if smart ones think why pay so much ..why not enroll in cheap schools and still get that knowledge? Now this is one thing which one has to decide on ... to adopt the technology.
One way of using technology is to lessen burden on over worked teachers, teach not so efficient teachers to how things must be done, make learning a better experience by giving more visual viewpoints of concepts and being clear in what one is explaining. This one will bring in an increase in the quality of education and the worth for all the time in school. Important of all is the learning experience and not forgetting it. How many times have u watched a same movie twice? You generally dont as it will keep all those embedded in your brain.....same way all these fundas and basics are into you forever. Then there is a relief of re-viewing the class again and again till you get things clearer. I am not saying replace everything with technology and robots, i am promoting technology as a tool not a substitute for human touch. Well teachers can still be around to answer the questions of curious ones, involve in class discussions and giving that extra things to kids.
Now coming to economics.....yearly license fee to be paid to the schools which provide the material, monthly subscription to the cable operators, variable pricing on streaming only, on demand, repeated viewing, hardware costs to encrypt and decrypt the signals ...so as not to steal and violate copyright laws. A surprise squad to check and book culprits who would record and not pay the license and who may sell things off the shelf and make quick money.
So again....anyone willing to value this more than my 2 cents :D ?
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