Encouraging Classroom Innovation
I know many college professors who are teaching the same class they did years ago. There’s no incentive to innovate, even when the world is changing around them.
Most colleges require students to fill out end of course gradesheets, but these usually disappear into the black void that is the bureaucracy or is kept by the professors to analyze. But that is old thinking, that is hoping the hierarchy will fix things. It won’t.
Instead, build a database where these things are input (skip the paper altogether and move it online) and then made publicly accessible. Allow a market to develop where students pick classes ranked by their peers along diverse criterion. Ingrain these results in the professor’s academic career through a rewards and punishment system.
In essence you’re leveraging your customer base to adapt your product inventory to their needs. Sure, it will be open to abuse to some degree, but that can be mitigated. All in all the benefits definitely outway the costs.
-Shlok
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