Friday, March 30th, 2007
The company I work for is an online conferencing company; provides all kinds of conferencing services web, phone, and video. Since I attended one of them I’m frankly amazed by it. You sit in front of your computer with a headset and a mic, you join a meeting for 40 people, share your desktop, images and ideas. Since that day I’ve been thinking this would be a great solution to the education problem in the world. I’m from a third (perhaps second, I’m not really following the categorizations) world country and I know many countries like mine can’t (don’t) provide equal recourses for all regions. I think, if private universities could get this service, they can offer all kinds of lectures, classes to these people who are not able to move to big cities and get into big schools. They only need to provide 1 room, a projector and a computer and whatever the package it is to enable the network. Then, teachers who have so big egos thus say they’d only teach in big schools could address these people who are eager to learn, from their comfy chairs. Only one hour a week, perhaps 40 students at a time.
