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From the Ted Talk by Tyler Dewitt: Online learning could change academia -- for good

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I wanted to bring my dad into this new world. I suggested we create a _____ ______ for intro _______. His ________, crafted and perfected over decades, took terrifying subjects like the Krebs cycle and _____________ and made them crystal clear and beautiful. They could help millions of students a day. "Why would any other college need a Bio 101 professor?" I joked. But it was something I'd seriously _______ about a lot. What if you identified a few __________ ________ educators like my dad and gave them essentially limitless _________, content editors, and animators and production teams, and they were able to devote all day, every day, to making incredible, beautiful educational _______. It seemed like this could fundamentally change a field where many professors all around the world were teaching essentially similar courses, particularly at the ____________ level. But each professor rarely had the time and resources to go all in. Incredible _________ content felt like something that could scale, a key concept driving so many of the new revolutions in tech.

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I wanted to bring my dad into this new world. I suggested we create a video series for intro biology. His lectures, crafted and perfected over decades, took terrifying subjects like the Krebs cycle and transcription and made them crystal clear and beautiful. They could help millions of students a day. "Why would any other college need a Bio 101 professor?" I joked. But it was something I'd seriously thought about a lot. What if you identified a few incredibly talented educators like my dad and gave them essentially limitless resources, content editors, and animators and production teams, and they were able to devote all day, every day, to making incredible, beautiful educational content. It seemed like this could fundamentally change a field where many professors all around the world were teaching essentially similar courses, particularly at the introductory level. But each professor rarely had the time and resources to go all in. Incredible education content felt like something that could scale, a key concept driving so many of the new revolutions in tech.

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