Re-Blogging Friday: Access to information makes us better students and better professors

I had started to reblog posts or stories from other websites. However, there is so much stuff going on that I feel that it would eventually drown out my normal posts (the same way I think my RTs are taking over my twitter updates). So, I've decided to post them all on the same day: Friday

• Earlier this week, I was talking about the fact that information was readily available to anyone who wanted it. In this vein, Youtube EDU brings information and discussions that were only available to students, professors or those affiliated to top universities right unto the computers of the masses. Here is Physorg.com's story (although, I think it first comes from AP): On the Net: College too expensive? Try YouTube
  
• Another post with a similar idea from Education Futures: Going Global and Purposive. The idea is that we must use the technology to our advantage. As an example, I took a Corporate Finance class last semester at McGill (great course by the way) and the professor was recording all lectures and posted them in two formats on the web. This meant that you could take the class whenever you wanted and enabled the professor to reach people that would not have the time to come to his lectures otherwise.