Online learning could change academia -- for good | Tyler Dewitt

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Higher education remains rooted in rigid, traditional structures and tracks -- and it's at risk of getting left behind in favor of expanded access, greater flexibility and tailored learning. Educator Tyler DeWitt explains how innovations in digital content and virtual reality are ushering in the future of learning, emphasizing why academia must adapt to this new reality and embrace an approach to education that works with students' needs -- not against them.
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[@Emmawhoful]

My favorite line: "the focus of education should be learning, not teaching"

[@thequran3604]

Well said.

[@NROS2012]

Fucking stupid comment really. That’s like saying, the focus should be on eating, not preparing food or talking not thinking.

[@somebody1828]

Wow yeah, that has to be pointed out for academic people. Since academia is an academic thing for academic people in academic manner.

[@dianaramsey3759]

Thank you for sharing this! Could totally relate to what was being shared.

[@ScubaDracula]

Yes, but what children today are learning from academia isn't exactly Truthful trusted information to begin with, they have their own agenda... Just look at what's happening with the medical tyranny now it's been going on for at least a century now. Germ theory is complete nonsense. They've hijacked the medical system years ago. They've been dumbing down society for centuries. And now with them having complete control of the worlds information the education system is basically f'd.

[@moshecallen]

I'm currently doing a doctorate in physics. The wealth of material on research topics even at such an advanced level available on youtube is amazing.

[@xmifi]

Teaching is an art of converting knowledge in to understandable language. Which not all teachers possess.

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[@amparocribas7792]

Finally someone who really gets to see that education must be a full mind blowing experience with different modalities that fit in with each person’s learning approaches. Tradition is not going to be eliminated, but actually transformed into its brightest being. We need more people learning. It does not matter how, if efficiency is guaranteed.

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My entire community college experience was basically 15% instructors 85% Tyler Dewitt

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15% instructors 85% blessed Indian lecturers on KZbin

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[@M0NJl]

Love it and make perfect sense! University professors prioritize and incentivized for publishing papers over teaching and giving individual attention to students. So the model hasn’t changed for centuries and screaming for disruption.

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[@mahawk6013]

That is the current workload model for academics. Research and research funding trumps teaching. Time for change.

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Traditional universities&colleges over decade have been an outdated system at their current state. They need to vastly transform to be revelant (especially regarding cost).

[@BlochSphere]

This should be seen by the educational institutions all over the world. Education is about learning a skill, and not just about getting a certificate or a tool that can get you a job. When students get into the institutions for the only sake of learning, we would be producing next level professionals!

[@simplymaci]

It didn’t even occur to me that this was THE Tyler was the one who did those videos! I’m not a Biology major anymore, but his videos helped me the most when I was struggling with Chemistry

[@ArvindRajan]

Everyone in academia NEEDS to watch this right now. Thank you Tyler for all that you do.

[@JaxonPham]

The school system and curriculum is so frustratingly dated. Any and all information is at our finger tips, yet we still expect kids to memorize the most useless definitions/facts and regurgitate everything back on to paper having absorbed nothing of value or substance. Hope the world finally reboots education norms as he says and takes college off the insanely high pedestal that it’s been on for decades.

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those kitchen tutorial videos were the ones that really made me get hooked on chemistry in my high school years, especially the VSEPR videos, thanks to my teacher who recommended it to my class and used it as her teaching material. Even in this video, you still teach me a lot of things and not limited to chemistry, but life perspective too. Really glad you seem to be doing well today Tyler!

[@ivo3185]

I remember watching Tyler's videos back in high school. He has an incredible capacity for teaching!

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A familiar face :-)

[@liig7432]

The irony of watching this while desperately missing going to uni for classes instead of having to take online lectures due to covid. There is a lot more to in person classes that online classes can't provide.

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[@bobbyvu242]

Great presentation. The future of education looks bright.

[@matthewdolan3925]

Online learning has been the single most detrimental and devastating event to happen through my education. I could not learn online, and I know for a fact that the majority of my colleagues and the students around me did not perform nearly as well as with in person, traditional schooling.

[@tabishumaransari]

This is all good as long as it is accompanied by universal basic income, because it will make a lot of teachers redundant.

[@byronflores5011]

Clear and true! Greetings from a professor in Spain.

[@FranciscoSciaraffia]

it's a bit sad that what has been abundantly evident for some of us for 20 years can still be a contentious issue for people in charge.

[@brotherayoade2]

I'm blown away. ...I started online classes in March 2020 and my student would be taking 0500 in two months time ....online classes are really pulling their weight next to traditional classes

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Vision. Change. Progress. Tyler’s success evolves

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Thanks to your awesome videos, I made it through my undergrad chemistry courses!

[@curry2131]

Absolutely agree with you!!!

[@denissem4854]

Dude got me through chemistry. Thanks Tyler!

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Very expressive dude.

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I haven’t seen my favorite chemistry teacher on KZbin in ages

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Hi Yusuke! You remember me?

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i used to watch this guy's chemistry videos! awesome dude

[@niccolom]

Could? It already has. And of course it does. And the switch to online learning will weed out those who are forced to go to school but hate school. That's both good and bad. For those who don't want to go to school, they will get a head start on a craft-based career sooner than their predecessors do and save a few years of wasted time.

[@NamasenITN]

You are also neglecting that there is more than getting credits and final grades. You seem to forget about the deep personal relationships that might build with a traditional “physical” professor-student interaction. In an online course there would be unfortunately nothing like that. No random chat with other professors or researchers, happening in the corridor.

[@stephengoh5456]

So Awesome! Love it. Thank you.

[@SeeNickView]

I've literally watched that electrochemistry video!!!

[@B.Whittaker]

So TED is gonna let this guy make content for them, but not even link his channel anywhere...

[@Ensource]

they r? he has website and YT channel.. not hard

[@B.Whittaker]

@@Ensource They could have easily just linked his channel. If you don’t know who this man is then you might not know his channel name is just his name, and may not find it.

[@ConfuzzledTomato]

He stopped making videos

[@B.Whittaker]

@@ConfuzzledTomato That sucks, but still

[@ConfuzzledTomato]

@@B.Whittaker if he stopped making videos whats the point of linking his channels? those that want his videos will find the videos if they just look up the topics.

[@nathaliafernandes5093]

I loved this

[@kamalnasibli]

Great talk, thank you

[@mazied.2870]

Tyler saved me in Chemistry!

[@garydose129]

Using videos is a tool that is overlooked these days. In the 90s we used them a lot, but some teachers became too reliant on them. It's a balance of using in class instruction and other resources. For videos, teachers need to watch as well so that they can answer questions that students have about the content of the film.

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Fantastic content!

[@nickbayer7847]

Bravo Tyler👏👏

[@auburnray775]

As they say teaching is an art of converting knowledge into understandable language, I feel that Cambridge Home School Online is doing the best job of teaching high school kids and having them excel in their careers.

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Hey legend, please come back to KZbin, we really need you 😭😭

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Yesss

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where did you graduate? me: ah... KZbin University . and my favourite homeroom teacher is zeFrank lol

[@caviragtiwari2114]

I think by going into class and learning something is a process which make them to be Disciplined about their studies.... In online world we can see there are lots of disturbance when they know no one here to have a eye on...

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[@SeekersofUnity]

This isn't the future of education. It's the present.

[@user-gn6hy5cl6l]

I think if we have the will and attitude to study hard, we can achieve the most efficient achievement, whatever the platform of learning is. If we continue to have that willingness, I think platform makers will improve the quality of educational video to teach better on online platforms, and the online educational platform will be able to develop further.

[@Nanononada]

Good

[@AdvancedUSA]

Competition is the anathema of places like Harv, MIT, UPENN etc

[@jonathanrequena4361]

Man it feels good to be early for once

[@lostavatar3985]

VR lab will be fantastic to practice, but can never replace the real thing, as it will be limited to the results programmed in.

[@davidvasquez1855]

How should one go about taking these classes??

[@thequran3604]

Online learning is a future.

[@JDK-MEDIA]

As accurate as you illustrated it! Covid only quickened the process. Regardless of how rigid & conservative our academic systems may seem, e-Learning is the future of education.

[@FelipeCampelo0]

I’m sorry, but the audio quality is really poor in this video. I’ve even switched devices to make sure.

[@kinsmed]

Can we please get past the fad of side angle cuts?

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This is funny 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤪

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Physicswallah 💚

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2021(G) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:

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[@user-sz5slm]

Institutions certainly help us learn how to learn, but you are right in many ways. The world is drowning in bureaucracy

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@@whatspp7203 Investing in something won't save you from bureaucracy

[@danieldouglasclemens]

The idea is great. But there are a few catches, which aren't mentioned: A teacher or professor at university has the official certificate for "quality assurance" of his knowledge. He may still be bad at teaching, but at least he wouldn't teach you wrong facts and procedures. I don't want to imply that people outside of the academic fields aren't capable of creating great leaning material, but the challenge as a potential student is to identify errors in the contents being taught. KZbin has great educational videos, but there are also a LOT of videos only teaching you maybe a somewhat narrowed down view, shortcuts without pointing out the shortcomings or in worst case even simply wrong facts and methods. Not by intention but by simply not having the experience or knowledge. So the question as a student remains: How do I as a student tell the difference between right and wrong, if I am new to the field? Comments alone won't cut it.

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Wow

[@joepdeboer8724]

Sounds great but a fully commercial education will not bother learning you life skills as working in teams on applying gained knowledge but just focus on getting a good grade on some test

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when he said his dad passed 🥺

[@cgonthebeat3741]

Online learning isn't all that, did it 11-12. It just isn't the same as being in a class with other humans exchanging ideas. Making friends in person. Just my personal opinion though.

[@kevcreations5861]

Exactly, it's subjective. The whole premise of the talk

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First in the Ted talk

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Anyone from ENGGEN 403?

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Do you think mechanical, chemical or electric engineering in vr will be possible as well??

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Maybe genetic engineering?

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Yes

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@TED what this?

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[@TengahSleep]

it’s possible to be educated and smart but it’s impossible to be certified because people are afraid of change

[@MonkeyspankO]

Few people recognize the future, until its suddenly here. That's why its called the future.

[@teachingandlearningcenter5747]

Unfortunately (as a career academic) I don't think higher ed will bend this far, at least not until it is forced to rise as a phoenix from the ashes.

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POG

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Heartwarming, frightening, and true...LAUSD just unveiled its AI bot "Ed" which will be teaching in a classroom near you very soon!

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Crash course KZbin

[@ni3070]

But this would reduce professor jobs.......

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Online education is the future. The traditional education method of receiving classes in a classroom with a teacher/professor talking non-sense will become obsolete.

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It would be great to test rocket engines in VR without burning up all that fuel

[@pekachew83]

I love this video but he beats about the bush a lot edit: and speaks very slowly

[@Imbolex]

I hate learning online. It's totally different from learning in class.

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atmosphere

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To be honest. ONLINE CLASSES SUCKS

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Traditional universities will never willingly give up their death grip on tax dollars.

[@OHOHOHCOME]

University used to be the only place to acquire knowledge a long time ago, but that is no longer the case. Universities should focus more on research and community building, and delegate teaching to the thousands of online resources.

[@AdityaMehendale]

I despise fake-side-camera, WHY, TED, WHY????

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I disagree with him. There is no way to get the university out of education

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Yup it’s possible to be educated and smart but it’s impossible to be certified because people are afraid of change

[@migadepancito]

I'm doubtful there's a true correlation between popularity of an online teacher and quality of teaching.

[@Ensource]

study statistics for an answer

[@migadepancito]

@@Ensource Has there been a study on the matter?

[@Ensource]

@@migadepancito you could just start with a basic hypothesis of popularity and effectiveness. you can be popular for the reason of being funny. and you can also be popular because you are funny and you engage. metrics would lead you to a popular teacher that is effective if there was a website that had a rating of how "good" teachers were

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Start an online university. You can just saying

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the government would not allow that bc then school would become useless

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1 st comment

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Honestly, degrees are an outdated concept. They should be replaced with acredited certificates with focused training on the subject matter.

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Recycling videos again. Pretty unprofessional.

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NO MORE ONLINE LEARNING

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