Call for high-tech higher education


Artificial intelligence professors, social online learning and Netflix-style textbooks are just some of the changes students want to embrace – more so than their professors. 

IN 1886, William Orton, president of Western Union, said: “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” This terrible technology prediction also applied to the automobile, electricity (yes, by Edison himself), and even the Internet, which were once written off as fads or fanciful toys without any potential.

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Opinion , Danial Rahman , columnist

Danial Rahman

Danial Rahman

Danial Rahman has education close to his heart. He tweets at @danial_ari and welcomes feedback at danialrahman0330@gmail.com.

   

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