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Rotisserie Question
To what extent, if at all, is providing information and instruction to persons other than degree candidates part of Harvard's mission? If this is indeed part of Harvard's proper role, what sorts of relevant experiments should the university be conducting? For example, how about providing videos of all Harvard lectures online to the public for free? |
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Our mission is knowledge for mankind.
We should be, we are, conducting experiments to learn how to use digital resources to teach and learn.
You suggest providing videos of *all* More...
Absolutely right; mankind does indeed include non-degree candidates at Harvard.
The only thing that occurs to me to extend re: this post might be to add "research" to the list More...
I'm in favor of the university thinking about its mission in terms of doing the best possibly job in instructing its degree candidates, but not at the expense of failing More...
Providing instruction to persons other then degree candidates should be an integral part of Harvard's mission. Staff, academic partners, citizens of developing nations working with Harvard, and even general persons More...
We will do well to experiment. We need to learn what works for us and for audience. But to suggest from our law school base that HBS experiment with opening More...
A strong dose of the Harvard elixir could be bottled for universal distribution, I think, in a continuous series of regular (even daily)interactive conversations with Harvard teachers and researchers about More...