Why Colleges Should Stop Using Textbooks | Naseem Saloojee | TEDxQueensU
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- As the VP of Revenue for an Education Technology company, Naseem has been able to witness the flaws in the current higher education system. Just some of these flaws include communication, delivery, and structure. By assimilating technology into the classroom, Naseem believes many of the traditional methods of educating university students can be eradicated in place for newly developed ideologies.
Naseem is VP Revenue at Top Hat, the leading teaching platform for university professors. As head of the sales team, Naseem leads the development and execution of the company’s go-to-market strategy. Over the past 3 years, Top Hat has scaled its revenues more than 500% and the company has been recognized amongst Canada's 20 fastest growing companies by Deloitte Fast50 and Profit500.
An advisor at Ryerson's Digital Media Zone startup accelerator and a member of the University Council of Queen’s University, Naseem is passionate about education and the potential to bring innovative and disruptive business models to the education system.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Education needs to incorporate more technology and more field trips and mentorship. School as it is is pathetic.
Nice speech from professor Charles Xavier.
Ken Duong LOL
without even watching this, I fully agree!
Bushrah Iqbal almost every TEDx talk in a nutshell
I disagree, because I've had professors that have no idea how to teach well. I've had to sit through mystifying lectures and then study the actual material using the textbook.
Bushrah Iqbal Take a class with this. Then say that again.
Once you take away the written print, all digital information will be released by authorization only. There are already time requirements in online curriculum.
Math classes require a minimum time in most tutorials. (average 6 hours a week). English classes require working with videos for writing programs.
College/Universities have a requirement that a student give 150% effort for each class. Professors are using these online tutorials to force students to meet that 150% curriculum requirement.
This guy is just a spokesman for online curriculum companies...
Once again though, this only leads to ultimate control of information, and access to that information by authority.
or you can pirate them as well, supporting piracy then.
speedy01247 nothing wrong with that
checking phones 11 times during class? That is sad. Sending texts in class? never!
Markyroson Actually these are reasons against more digitalization.
Markyroson at my university the professor will ask you to leave if they find you playing with the phone
Markyroson at my university the professor will ask you to leave if they find you playing with the phone
As a French student I've never payed more than 15€ for a textbook. They were given to us or rented for about 100€ for ~6/7 books a year. I've never understood the education system in the US about textbooks...
I graduated from the University of Life☀
I think this is partially right but lacking some vision. If you only start this kind of teaching concept in uni, you are still going to get a large number of students out of their depth in that environment. I think that, from day one in education (and ideally even before formal education) kids should be encouraged in their strengths and helped in their weaknesses. And all of that (especially the latter) without stigmata. Just because someone is weak in one subject, does not mean they are weak overall, yet I have seen kids treated that way too often!
Which reminds me, I should get back to ready my textbook for that exam.
This should be called "Why kids should stop using colleges"
That's absolutely true! I'm from Germany and the school system is absolutely outdated. The majority of content we are learning prepares us for a job that will probably disappear in the next decades due to big data and it possibilities. Instead of learning those outdated competences we need to develop problem solving and creative skills to make it in a modern society. To put things in perspective: I'm at a huge school with over 1500 students and I am the only one I know who really takes advantages of bringing the iPad to class! So not just the content we're learning needs to be changed but also the methods and tools students and teachers are using needed to be updated!
Nico Same here ... I use my Chromebook because I hate Apple but the point remains the same. When I look at the people in my school (~800 ppl.) I haven't found a single one that actually embraces critical thinking which is extremely sad to see.
CiriousJoker Yes! Most people say that they don't like school but they don't think about new approaches either.
CiriousJoker And it doesn't matter at all which device students would use because there are many (and many free) software platforms that are accessible from almost every device that can connect to the internet.
this is library
Excellent lecture! As a college student I agree that we should embrace the technology we have today and use it for better learning methods that will actually allow us to learn more and experience firsthand new knowledge 👍🏻
Excellent speech! I'm a CS student and I've seen this sort of implantation in class where we've done a pop quiz on our phones (similar to the pre-movie game at Cineplex) and it really showed the range of skill in the class. It also showed where the class needed to focus and/or have more review. PS I hate paying $300 for a text book I look at once...
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Lol, do CS students even read their txt bks? The ones I know don't bother.
noperz lol it's all application of skills, knowing where to look up methods/syntax, and practice. haven't bothered to buy a cs textbook since first year
that's so cool, man.
mr worldwide
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Many of you here bashing college are borderline illiterate. I agree that there are flaws in the higher education system but please don't try to pretend that your "school of hard knocks" has somehow bestowed upon you some semblance of cultural literacy. It is abundantly clear that some of you didn't forego college for some other intellectual pursuit. You didn't go either by choice or circumstance, but don't knock higher education like the fox who couldn't reach the sweet grapes dangling from the vine overhead. Those grapes aren't necessarily sour.
Its not about knocking on colleges but the the impact that colleges have on the job market where it gets harder to get hired even if you are self taught and have to start your own business. Internship should be promoted more instead of colleges
Nicely done, very interesting!
Colleges have stopped using textbooks, they play UA-cam videos all the time now
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No. Students still have to buy textbooks. However, the YT vids are easier to understand because they're less dry and more succinct.
Wow I agree with this guy. He has great points.
sure there are bad professors but thats ridiculous.
I think if a professor would acually do their lectures as badly as he descibes they would lose their job. Also nobody would come to the lecture because students want to learn firsthand from an expert and not get a fucking book red to them.
You'd be surprised. Thankfully the professors that teach my most pertinent courses are nothing like this, but most of my professors for math and physics have been terrible. Keep in mind math is also my favorite subject - the teachers were just supremely awful sometimes.
This has my total support!
exams on the way , finishing my highschool ,will be going to college , u said good stuff
Today's problem, we having lot of information but don't know where to apply .
I read all the textbooks in my college courses. The professor simply regurgitates the information that is present in the course book. Except for math and science classes; those classes you must attend to fully understand concepts. But classes like Psychology and programming classes, you can succeed by simply reading the book and taking notes simultaneously.
Look at all the liberal arts majors... The only time I feel distress when I'm away from my phone is when I need to call or text someone and I can't remember where I threw it a few days prior.
Spot on.
Pls God
Tell this to my lecturer
11:03 agree!
I didn't need to tell me this but to point it out cause its already happening! Apps want to make more money from the learning community!
How many of you know the truth about implementing this?
I haven't bought a single book for university in three years. I'm a student, I can't afford that shit, and there are torrents and a free library if I really need them
I didn't understand what he said
why colleges stop using text books?
easy its expensive as hell. i aint wanna pay more my broke self can barely afford college
advances in technology makes me excited yet sad
Why people should skip college would be a great addition
nice speech
I like the numbers
Textbooks are so damn expensive!
NOOOOOOOO. HAVE YOU EVER USED SOME OF THESE ONLINE BASED CLASSES?!!!
Harrison Ressler how is it please I'm serious
There's always someone who shouts "Whoohoo" in the end of all TED talks.
again tedx and again best subject
Clicked because we have the same first name!
When I look at a screen my brain thinks differently than when I look at a book. There are studys around this.
Your argument is absurd and over exagerated. And probably biased.
I thought the only reason why schools still went with textbooks was because of money.
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He's thinking too small. Universities are out-dated. Professors who can't teach should stick to research. The ones who can should lecture online to an unlimited number of viewers.
but sq3r...
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Tina Dellavedova why???
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Hilarious. A VP of REVENUE for TopHat bashing publishers. TopHat is launching their next gen textbook--which is essentially a ripoff/copy of already existing products all at a higher cost.
Also hilarious worth noting...TopHat has been around for YEARS and won "Start Up of the Year" in Canada. What exactly does "start up" mean in Canada?
I could go on & on & on about all of the backwards comments & off based facts in this talk. :|
Not mad at all. This is a precise case of the pot calling the kettle black.
TopHat's next gen ebook is, for all intent purpose a copy/ripoff of a publisher's product mentioned in the video.....priced higher.
I wouldn't sling mud if I were peddling a less than genuine idea/product that contributes to the pricing problem described in the video. And when I say ripoff/copy I mean the platform, delivery model, idea. Of course the content isn't a copy. Not sure how you even misconstrued that...
And, nice of you to compare apples to hand grenades. You point to a traditional text from Pearson vs eText of TopHat. How convenient of you in an attempt to prove a point.
However, If you compare apples to apples, you'll see that a proven book, by a professor, Paula Bruice is $63.
www.vitalsource.com/products/organic-chemistry-paula-yurkanis-bruice-v9780133556186
Would you like to know more about Pearson's next gen ebook, REVEL? If it sounds eerily similar to TopHat's new product there is a reason...(Oh, and it's priced starting at $65 depending on the disciple and most of the time is around $85)
Reading the description you'll see: "This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community." What this really says is: A fake TED talk organized by TopHat.
Just a word of caution--check the ingredients of the kool aide before chugging.
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