San Diego Union Tribune
October 27, 2003
New SDSU classroom can seat 520 students
By Lisa Petrillo
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
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This single room will enable roughly a dozen SDSU faculty members,
in just one semester, to teach nearly 7,000 students.
Fittingly, two of the 13 classes meeting there this semester are
Economics 101 and 102 * the classroom epitomizes the "economy of
scale."
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Professors work at an 8-foot-long control panel. Behind it are three
giant movie screens, like those at sports stadiums to help those in
the cheap seats see the action.
The logical next step would be to videotape professors' lectures and
use the videotaped lectures from the next semester on, eliminating
the necessity for live professors. The school would then become an
academic mega-multiplex. Additional revenues will be raised from
sales at concession stands next to lecture halls.
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Yoshie
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