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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...
...Magliozzi swears by the latter, noting that creating shortcuts is not the purpose of the site. “The idea is not to give Harvard students a lazy way out,” he explains. “It’s to give really intellectually, academically curious Harvard students a way to engage more...
...school where students barely have time to attend classes, sections and labs—much less discuss the abstract ideas presented in them—Magliozzi advocates open discussion. “Ideally, the site will help engage students more, and since it’s open to everyone at Harvard and the public, broaden the classroom discussions—not just with friends...
...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...