universities

5 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 10, 2018 by Barbara Oakley · across every show →

Everything said about universities, oldest first

Apr 10, 2018 negative
Opinion
Oakley: Second-Tier Universities Resist MOOCs Over Faculty Job Loss Fears
“The top tier universities are getting information out there with massive open online courses. It's the second tier Universities that often kind of go, oh no, we shouldn't have anything online because people will lose jobs. So we're not going to allow anything …”
Barbara Oakley Apr 10, 2018 ▶ 1:27:23 #31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn
Apr 10, 2018 positive
Opinion
Oakley: The Best Teaching Often Occurs at Non-Top-Tier Universities
“Particularly universities that are not in the top tier, that those are the ones where there's the best teaching often going on, and that this needs to get out to the public.”
Barbara Oakley Apr 10, 2018 ▶ 1:29:57 #31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn
Jul 11, 2018 positive
Opinion
MacAskill: Strongly favors limited-life foundations over perpetual endowments
“I'm extremely pro limited life foundations and very skeptical of perpetual foundations where within that I'd include universities as well.”
William MacAskill Jul 11, 2018 ▶ 24:53 #36 William MacAskill: The Science of Doing Good
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Haidt: University administrators reflexively surrender to student demands for emotional safety
“It leads to an attitude in which everyone is afraid to judge on a case-by-case basis, and the response is pretty much always to give the students what they want. So individual professors do that. Administrators do that. And so if students are saying that somet…”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 2, 2019 ▶ 28:29 #61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad
Mar 31, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: University 100-series lecture classes will disappear due to AI tutors
“A hundred series classes in university are going to go away. Like as soon as everybody figures out this AI tutor stuff, they're just going to go away.”
Joe Liemandt Mar 31, 2026 ▶ 1:30:07 Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
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