Higher Education

A stack of all my notebook binders from my MBA courses at Duke University.

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On the wiki page for Education, upload the photo of my notes from Duke. This picture is another reason why having a wiki is so important to me. For listeners, I’m showing a photo of a stack of three-ring binder notebooks - and there are about 20 notebooks and the stack is probably over 3 feet high. I got an MBA from Duke University in 2011 and for every course, we were given a three-ringed binder notebook with the reading and assignments. We were not allowed to have laptops in class, so all my notes were hand written right on the pages of those binders. I moved to New York City after getting the MBA into a tiny apartment and just didn’t have room for them anymore, so I took this picture as I stacked them all in the refuse room of my apartment building. Before I did, I went through many of those binders and transferred the most important of the notes into OneNote (which I was using at the time), but I’m sure there was still a lot that is now gone forever. I can remember some of the notes I took or papers I wrote in college that I really wish I had today.

For higher education, every student and professor has their own wiki. There will also be an project wiki for each class. The professor and each student would join. The syllabus and required reading lists would be available as the course starts. Assignment would be issued, completed, and graded within the wiki. ChatGPT said probably not on that idea, because almost every university already has a learning management system that does assignments and grades, but when the course is over, the student looses access to everything. The wiki would give them a place to take notes that they will have forever. They take their notes, create outlines, and write papers in the wiki and then copy/paste them into the LMS for submission. ChatGPT recommended that instructors create a Page Set (that may be only one page) that includes Course Overview, Assignments , Lecture Notes, Research Journal, Reading Notes, Final Project. Students can download that info and add their own notes, sub-pages, and link to their other wiki pages. Students would be encouraged to write papers in teh wiki starting with some notes, then forming an outline, then add details. There is an auto-save feature every 10 minutes and so your professor can click back through your wiki history to see all your edits since you started the assignment. And someone can make an AI system to analyze to determine how much of the students' work was done by an AI.

Professors get a gold star if they make a tax-deductible donation on behalf of all of their students. Schools can become "supporters" if they make a wiki donation on behalf of each of their students and consider that to be part of the student activity fees. It is cheaper than any other assignment tracking and grading system. Students could be taking notes in their wiki page during the course and the professor is teach from their wiki page and each student has the option of clicking an "I'm lost" button. Also, professors can ask survey or quiz questions during class and the students could answer in real-time, and the professor would have a record of everyone's answers.

Students are encouraged to form a study group and share their work with each other and discuss it.

My nephews... We can make templates for professors to create a course syllabus in Wiki format so that students attending the course can add it directly into their wiki. If universities have their current course list available as a CSV or spreadsheet, I could populate them all into our course list. And I could probably find a list of the one thousand textbooks being used by colleges and universities today and import all of them.