VR to replace current education system

>>7948114
It's not. Absolutely not. We already have top-notch MOOCs and great archives from top uni courses. This does NOT replace human interaction, because the main thing you get from uni is not the content, but the ideas and direction.

>>7948114
>Radio will revolutionize education! People will be able to listen to lectures from home!
>TV will revolutionize education! People will be able to watch lectures from home!
>Internet will revolutionize education! People will be able to watch lectures from home!

>be in class
>everyone has their varmets on
>listening to the lecture like the sheep they are
>take off helmet
>check out the tits on the girl next to me for the whole period

>>7948123
Did you gloss over the use of "tipping point".

Also I'm not talking just uni but education in general.

>>7948134
I mean yeah, they kinda did. I do a lot of homework online and I've taken many online courses especially for bullshit courses. That's not even going in to how much information dissemination has occurred since the release of all three medias. NPR, NOVA and MIT open course ware are a bare minimum of examples.

So maybe it won't be the fucking bee's knees. But if I'm in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and want to study some crazy subject it'd be quite nice to be able to get an interactive VR lecture from a great lecturer.

>>7948123
>the main thing you get from uni is not the content, but the ideas and direction.

Liberal Arts student detected

>>7948123
>We already have top-notch MOOCs and great archives from top uni courses.
honestly we can get away with just computer screens right now, but VR might be useful for certain things.

>>7948134
it should have been revolutionized already but something isnt allowing it to happen.

>>7948174
The idea is that maybe VR will be the tipping point because of the psychological reasons, not because it is really better.

Rather, people will in general be more in awe of VR technology than the idea of watching a lecture on youtube. For instance parents may be much more likely to support their children doing a VR class versus an "online" course.

>>7948114
>why dont we just cut more jobs?! xDDD LOLZ

>>7948224
>cutting jobs is bad if it saves money

Idiot detected. Cutting jobs to send them overseas is bad for many different reasons and is not a simple thing.

If you could half the classroom size of students by putting half the school in VR at any given time you could improve education yields while keeping the same staff numbers.

Cutting Jobs to replace them with automation is very different for a society than replacing those same workers with imported goods.

>>7948224
Actually his point isn't half bad. More and more people are taking online courses for university degrees. More and more universities are offering online courses. It seems like a win win situation for all.

Though we have the internet which is filled with information but is only used to watch porn. I don't know if it would actually work out.

>>7948252
>>>/pol/

>>7948170
get a load of this guy who never even had one good math prof

no, its too expensive
lots of poorer classrooms can barely afford a computer at all

>>7948270
Is there something unique about smelling your professor that could not be replicated in VR?

>>7948280
Not true. Also it would be at minimum 1-3 years from now just for the content to be created.

Western education has a lot of funding and definitely enough to afford VR classrooms because there would also be a cost savings associated.

Try taking on the teacher's unions. Good luck!

>>7948114
No. Even if VR became widely affordable, it would have no effect on usability. Education will stabilize long before VR telepresence become normative.

>>7948170
You should realize that the purpose of uni is not teaching you anything.

>>7948114
We could have replaced teachers with youtube videos centuries ago. /sci/ is so brainwashed by jews "you must pay to see X professor in person for the prestige". I learn all my science at home and I'm smarter than 99% of /sci/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4XZwSxeUIw
check this out.

>>7948913
>I learn all my science at home and I'm smarter than 99% of /sci/
At a certain point google stops being useful. Just wait till you take some graduate courses.

>>7948913
I'm laughing at you so hard right now thanks

>>7949194
I disagree. It helps me well throughout studying japanese.

>>7949253
I had STEM courses in mind.

>>7949194
>going to grad school
Oh boy the jews got you good. Back in the day you could get a job with just an apprenticeship now you need a masters minimum. Why do you support this system America? At least here in Britain you can still get chartered with an online bachelors.
>>7949240
cucks gonna get cucked

>>7949270
Some people actually like becoming more knowledgeable in their field, they don't do it only for job opportunities.

No employment for anyone. Just sitting at home learning about esoteric basketweaving techniques for no reason. THINK OF THE SAVINGS

Is what an alarmist would say. I'm actually all for this. The alarmists are just being short sighted as usual.

>>7948134
The reason this isn't happening is that there is an educational monopoly. To solve the problem just break up the monopoly.

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>>7949344
Basically this
>90% of courses homework is online
>Book is electronic
>Professor puts lecture notes online
>All important information about updates within the course is put online
>Course still has attendance requirement
>It's draconian AF, miss [insert rather low amount of absences] and we either rape your grade or auto fail you

>>7948123

Nah man,teachers will still be employed even if this VR-Aristotle thing came to universities

Cutting the middleman that is the VR-Aristotle would only cut the cost of schooling.

The system might as well have not existed

What we really need is better teachers

>>7948114
I actually recently visited a university that is already developing VR education solutions. Quite nice but a bit boring for me to work on.

>>7949354
I dont require attendance. There are always a handful of students who don't come to class. They always fail or scrape by with a C. This has been consistent over three semesters now.

Why not just work through a textbook?

>>7949354
>>7949344
Fucking this. When will the sheeple wake up, lectures are completely outdated

>>7948123
The worst thing is that you actually believe this.

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>>7949354
I honestly don't think there's anything wrong with having to show up. It at least shows you were there and then the professor can say you were there.

Though
>sophomore year
>taking comparative vertebrata anatomy
>score really high on all of my exams like >95
>don't show up for lectures because the professor is confusing as fuck
>go and talk to the professor about not taking the final (I do this with every professor because why the fuck should I take the final if I have a 95 or better )
>tells me that I'm going to fail the course no matter what I do because I never showed up
>make him a deal that I have to score a 100 on the final and he'll pass me with a C
>he agrees because no one has ever scored 100 before
>get a 102
>get an email like a week later telling me that out the principal of the matter he has to give me a D
>mfw

Fuck professors who can't explain shit and then expect you to show up. I did get it changed though after I brought it up to the head of the department and got a B+

>>7949636
>Not reporting the professor for artificially destroying your grade
Unless there was an attendance requirement stated in the syllabus

>>7948123
>This does NOT replace human interaction

oh fuck off

most lectures are shit and people fall asleep in them

better to get rid of human teachers altogether and replace them with VR

>>7948123
>Interaction
You ever be in a fucking lecture? 95% of them are 50+ and in that scenario you get little and in the 100+ you get 0.

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>>7948114
It will be the absolute best vehicle for indoctrinating children to social propaganda. It will usurp even the likes of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP-MbfHFUqs

>1,291,214,094 views

>>7949354
>>7949574
>>7949636

Actually, the reason it is in the program is to make sure you are being subservient to authority.

>>7948114
>society could save a lot of money
... every nickel of which would go into the pockets of the administrators, regents, and politicians.

>>7949692
>95% of them are 50+
freshman/junior detected.

>>7948252
>If you could half the classroom size of students by putting half the school in VR at any given time you could improve education yields while keeping the same staff numbers.
gee, look at all this data supporting your outrageously overblown and fallacious claim