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What if we limit the expression of these two important words: Share and Adapt?

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Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. What happens when you limit the voicing of these two important words? 1) Nescience : (Ignorance is a lack of knowledge) Our eyes and senses are limited by many ways. We are adapted to view the world perfectly only at a particular zooming level . The world becomes blurred when we increase or decrease the zooming level. We can't know what is happening in another country just by our senses. Increasing and decreasing the zooming level requires indirect measurements that are tedious and sophisticated. You need to learn the outcomes of the research, and techniques to make measurements by bringing it down to texts and tools that are compatible with our zooming level. Without sharing these texts, using and adapting it, our knowledge will be limited to our zooming level and will

Higher education must immediately stop obsolete blackboard teaching.

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Higher education must immediately stop obsolete blackboard teaching. Higher ed requires mentor and collaboration. What is obsolete blackboard teaching? [Lecturing is the] best way to get information from teacher’s notebook (mouth) to student’s notebook without touching the student’s mind.                                                                                         — George Leonard Patterns for bad practices of teaching, what is done in higher education, even best colleges. https://iambrainstorming.blogspot.in/2017/11/patterns-for-bad-practices-of-teaching.html So, how this can be solved? This is how colleges must run when there is the shortage of skilled teachers: 1) Give students compilation of pedagogically right content (such as videos, MOOCs, books, magazines etc.) What it means to be pedagogically right content? https://iambrainstorming.wordpress.com/all-books-that-dont-meet-the-learning-criteria-must-be-taken-off/ How learning can be more personalized with a decentrali