Source: Boing Boing
Article note: Cue academic administrators salivating at the idea of one-time-expense course content packs instead of paying for instructional faculty.
Side thoughts:
* What about canceled instructors? Remember how Walter Lewin's lectures were the recommended best physics lectures until he turned out to be creepy? If we can use dead people's content, surely we can use canceled peoples?
* I'm pretty sure being dead would not significantly affect the teaching practices of about 1/4 of the faculty I dealt with.
A real-life example leads to questions on education, labor, and economic worth. Aaron Ansuini made a surprising discovery with all kinds of implications.
HI EXCUSE ME, I just found out the the prof for this online course I'm taking *died in 2019* and he's technically still giving classes since he's *literally my prof for this course* and I'm learning from lectures recorded before his passing
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