Word: magliozzis
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Some within the Harvard community oppose Harvard’s resistance to a more open educational approach. One such rebel is Andrew J. Magliozzi ’05, founder of Finalsclub.org, a Facebook-meets-Wikipedia Web site meant to meet all your study needs. The site, which is currently being revamped and is set to launch on Oct. 14, contains blog notes of popular Harvard lectures. Past bloggers include students enrolled in the course, as well as TFs. An added component of the site is an interactive forum where users can create an account, make a group, invite friends...
Taking into account the competitiveness of Harvard students, the Web site allows for three different “levels” of sharing: group sharing, college sharing, and world sharing. Magliozzi, for one, hopes students will choose to share their information with the world. One of his goals is to use the internet to connect and link different texts and lectures; ideally, students reading about Mankiw’s lecture on marginal utility can click on a link that brings them to a Brown professor’s take...
Despite would-be prohibitive rules and regulations, students still have the opportunity and ability to further the call for more open education. Magliozzi says, “I can only enable you, but the students have to do it. If this is something students want, it will happen...
...Magliozzi lives by the mantra “learn to teach, teach to learn,” and hopes students will follow his lead. He continues, “Teach the world and learn better.” Or at least cheaper...
...This focus on expanding education rather than abridging it is built into the structure of the Web site. Magliozzi notes that reading the blogs and lecture summaries is far from a replacement for lecture attendance and readings. “If you want to pass the class, you can do that,” he says of the scope of the site. “You won’t get an A reading our blog. If you skip all the classes, you’re quite frankly screwed...