Last week I was talking about the same topic with some friends, they didn´t like it very much.
My idea was to free the students from the need to go to class and the live classes. My idea was publish free all the material, like MIT´s OCW, and let the students study by themselves for free and setup a forum (in the broad sense of the word) to talk and try to resolve the problems. The students will be able to buy consult time with professors to work on the most difficult parts or when guidance is need.
Finally, the University would offer a couple of times each year the possibility to take the exam for each course.
This system is by no far new, a lot of language certificates out there (Cambridge, TOEFL...) work in a similar way.
IMO this will democratize the knowledge, but is quite difficult to build.
My idea was to free the students from the need to go to class and the live classes. My idea was publish free all the material, like MIT´s OCW, and let the students study by themselves for free and setup a forum (in the broad sense of the word) to talk and try to resolve the problems. The students will be able to buy consult time with professors to work on the most difficult parts or when guidance is need.
Finally, the University would offer a couple of times each year the possibility to take the exam for each course.
This system is by no far new, a lot of language certificates out there (Cambridge, TOEFL...) work in a similar way.
IMO this will democratize the knowledge, but is quite difficult to build.