How the Profit Motive induced Universities to Mediate Contextual Education with Artificial Intelligence

A study funded by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) establishes that internet or computer mediated instruction is not as effective as instruction that transpires in-classroom. This trend runs across not only Colleges and Universities, but Elementary and High Schools.

The pattern that shows up clearly in the study?

While internet and computer mediated instruction do not have any adverse effects on learning of the Mathematical Sciences, in contexts that involve interpretation of knowledge, such as Economics and English, internet and computer mediated instruction produce adverse outcomes.

It should come as no surprise that internet and computer mediated instruction fail at that most precious of objectives of education, namely, development of capacity for interpretation and aggregation of knowledge that inherently is contextual.

It is unequivocal that the most important objective of education is not acquiring of knowledge, but development of the right mental processes for processing of knowledge…