It's not as if we will have to throw all the tenure profs. to the wolves either, someone is going to have to be curator of the online material after all.
This was precisely my thought in reading through the segment of the article dramatizing the "mortal threat information technology poses". The author alludes to artificial intelligence sufficiently capable of replacing a college professor in 20 years and attempts to tie this "threat" to today's economic and political climate and his own vague predictions of both 20 years down the line. It's not as if a professor could be adequately replaced by an AI tomorrow.
As it currently stands, online or not, a professor with appropriate knowledge is necessary to prepare and teach a course. It's not as if the job position vanishes when a course is taught online. As a current student who has taken five out of two dozen courses online: an effective professor is still key to teaching material to students, whether the classroom is physical or virtual.
This was precisely my thought in reading through the segment of the article dramatizing the "mortal threat information technology poses". The author alludes to artificial intelligence sufficiently capable of replacing a college professor in 20 years and attempts to tie this "threat" to today's economic and political climate and his own vague predictions of both 20 years down the line. It's not as if a professor could be adequately replaced by an AI tomorrow.
As it currently stands, online or not, a professor with appropriate knowledge is necessary to prepare and teach a course. It's not as if the job position vanishes when a course is taught online. As a current student who has taken five out of two dozen courses online: an effective professor is still key to teaching material to students, whether the classroom is physical or virtual.