AD - Instead of traffic jams, every now and then the system will just stop and we'll all be stuck somplace in our pods until it gets back up running again.
The only thing that worries me is the level of technology we need to support modern society and the future developments. I mean, you can't just place a GPS stattelite in orbit with a day's notice. What if someone screws up the software and things go down for a while as seems to have happened to Blackberry.
This guy was talking about humans getting around, to and from work etc. There are no remote drivers of the cars- you plug the coordinates of where you want to go, pick up a newspaper, or watch TV until you get to your destination. The car and its electonic controls do the rest.
Afritgo - That's an interesting way of looking at it. Why is home delivery too expensive for all but high priced items? Because of the labor required to drive it to our house. We provide that labor when we drive to a store. With a robot car, it would become much less expensive
The use of the word "car" is wrong as having autonomous cars to avoid traffic for the remote driver does not mean the passeger is not experiening traffic. But if there are no humans, let us say haulage systems
AD - That wouldn't surprize me too much. Although, I expect it would be treated more lik a car-pool lane or a seporated expressway that have the robot cars
""autonomous cars " driving who? They better call them haulage systems. If you need to pick things in malls and there is no need to drive. Why do we need a car with no seat. We can use haulage systems. I see no reason to stay in that car as a passenger to make someone program me an avoi the traffic.
The world is changing. I was listening to a futurist on Science Friday (NPR). He was saying with traffic congestion and safety the majority of roads would only be available to autonomous cars through public policy.
the car is fine - at least there are choices. but for planes, I have few. I will not even like to seat in car while someone remotely programs my movement. Give me the car key and let me drive.
It is like licensing flying auto-commercial planes. I will never fly a plane that the pilot is piloting remotely. The deal that both of us are at risk makes pilots better. If they mess, they die. What is the incentive for them to take me from Japan to U.S. while they are in Germany talking on the phone with girlfrinds piloting me?
When I think of how many lectures I, and others missed I must agree that online lectures are no worse and probably better, since you don't have to rely on others' notes. I remeber I would ask someone to write his notes using carbon paper! Photocopying was not great an expensive.
CEO of IBM thought there would only be three computers in the us. One on each coast and a backup in the middle. Head of patent office once quit saying everything had been invented. I dont trust such pronouncements
I am a believer of online programs but to think it can displace traditional universities is a stretch. I do not see that happening. There are many issues with these programs
People have always had the choice of learning at home for centuries. But we go to school not just to learn theories but build networks. MBA in Harvard is a paper but the contacts is priceless. How can MBA in one online school do that?
Good point but we are going to have civil engineers that watch shows and lecturers and never touch cement to build bridges. Until someone proves these programs can go beyond CS and management sciences, I am an unbeliever
my point is what of the practicals and labs? the good of university brick and mortar ones is that they invest in labs. Are you saying I can stay at home and get a medical degree?
afritgo, depends on what you are teaching. Civil engineering is taught in lecture halls, and anything taught in lecture halls can be adapted for online.
That is the effect of online education. Yet, it is too soon to know if you can do that in engineering. Can you teach civil engineering via the web? Most of these courses are CS courses and not engineering
one of the exciting things I see about online is how it multiples the power of the instructor. Rather than giving the same class 10 times he can create 10 classes. And rather than needing 100 teachers for the same course in colleges throughout a region you can have 100 courses.
The Codecademy system is interesting in that there isn't any lecture. It's an automated interactive step by step system. It's good in that you get to actually code and go at your own pace, but not so good in that you can't really venture outside of the script.
AD, if that works for you, great. Everyone has a different preference. Some like to just get the slides and ignore the lecture unless there is a specific slide they are curious about
I stand corrected. However I have attended some presentations that were live, and formed my preference then. I just prefer to watch them after the fact so I can stop and repeat.
One of the developing trends in the industry is user education and how most are using their websites to educate. That is expected to stay for a long time.
AD,mthe digikey presentations are archived as are the chats (just like this one) so you can get the lecture part at any time and repeat as needed. Just no live interaction.
duane, the advantage is that the smart kids go as fast as they can and the slow kids can repeat as much as they need. The teacher provides guidance and help. And classroom can be joint projects and application-oriented to solidify understanding. It shifts the burden somewhat
It seems to me that some courses like the Digikey ones are done live so that you get a chance to ask questions. maybe I am wrong. I registered fo a series and through a sheduling foul up missed them.
The flipped classroom idea makes a lot of sense to me. But I suppose it may take more discipline than a lot of kids have, not to mention the extra time involved.
I've started on their Pythin course. I also started on an online Java class from someone else, but I guess I suffer from the same problem of not finding or making the time to keep it up
I don't recall the details, but a few years back, I read about a hybid class system someone was trying out. The idea was that rather than listen to the lecture in a class romm and then go home and attempt to do the homework, students would watch online instruction at home and then come in to do the homework in class where they could get help
the speaker points out that one online class was a replication of a class normally taught to 400 students a year. The online had a registration of 100,000, or 250 years worth of students
the TED talks link in one of the comments to the online education blog is a really good one about how this online stuff changes the educational dynamic
I find that if it is totally flexible, I never make the time. I need the discipline of a set schedule. Without a scheduler, my interrup-driven life results in too many priority inversions.
well, the fixed schedule thing is pretty flexible in that you don't need to be live at a set time and day. But you do have to keep a steady pace. Since we're both signed up for courses we are going to do our study time together. We have separate computers about 8' apart. Might need to upgrade my Internet, tho.
I'll try to attend. Besides the technical webinar's I find the 10-20 minute video format followed by TED talks and www.khanacademy.org to be just the right length. Aforementioned 2 websites are not MCU focussed, but they have interesting stuff. Khanacademy is very good for middle-to-high school, and they may be the way how education is delivered in the future particularly for technical subjects.
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