Repurpose Education

By George ILIEV RepurposeEducation No 4 Artists are authentic. They do it their way. Entrepreneurs are conformist. They seek constant validation from the customer and the market. And right there in the middle between the two, there is a golden mean: the middle ground between authenticity (forging forward, no matter what) and conformism (relying on feedback loops). It is these iterations based on the merger of authenticity and conformism that produce the most amazing outcomes. Contact binary star (Source: Wikipedia )

By George ILIEV RepurposeEducation No 3 Can you think of any movie where the leading actor and the director were the same person? I can think of only 4 such actor-directors: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Woody Allen. If acting is so easy, why would directors need actors to perform on film at all? The simple truth is that actors act and directors direct. Actors do a better job of acting than directors would; and vice versa: directors do a better job of directing than actors would. So why do universities continue to insist that research professors have to teach: not only in the classroom but nowadays also on camera? Can't we give professors the #EducationDirector role in online teaching: make them course designers and content curators and let them direct the filming of their course, with an actor in the limelight. Professors deserve at least from time to time to be able to take their glasses off, sit back behind the camera and put their feet up. Professors ar...