this was a lecture taught by a man a man named eric lander who helped the human genome project teaching the introductory to biology which is essentially introductory genetics. he is he is as up-to-date in the field as is possible to be. so in cambridge massachusetts, 100 students took this class. they taped the lectures. two weeks later later tens of thousands of people around the world watched the same lectures, did exactly the same problem sets homework assignments, exams. i went to cambridge. i was curious. is there something i am am missing my not being there? i interviewed the students afterwards to get a sense of how they took the class. i interviewed eric. i wanted to be sure that i was right. what they told me was the same thing. i went to the lectures. lectures. i went back and talked to my fellow students, which i could easily do. i worked hard on the problem sets which is the core of the learning experience and that kind of introductory science class, and i took the exams. that is how they teach the class at mit and you can replicate that perfectly at a marginal cost. probabl

i interviewed eric lander and some of the teaching assistants. i really wanted to be sure i was right about this and what they all told me was the same thing. they said look this class i went to the lectures. i went back, i talked to some of my fellow students -- which i could easily do in on line forums they had at edex set up -- i worked very hard on the sets, and i took the exams. that's how they teach that class at mit. and you can replicate that, essentially, perfectly at a marginal cost to the last student or nothing. probably costs them a couple hundred thousand dollars to produce the class quote-unquote. they put it out there and now anyone can take it for free. the combination, i think, of the fact that we can reach so many more people for so much less money and in certain elements but certain important elements of higher education the fact that the reach of information technology continues to expand the fact that we can predict confidently that these smart people in places like stanford and carnegie mellon who have been trying very hard

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aspen ideas festival or come to our action forum or come to our strategy groups, you know like eric landersomebody you may not know. i hope he writes a book someday so you'll have him on. but he does -- he's helping do, complete more sequencing of the genome at mit and hard voir -- harvard. but he's a humanist as well so he understands how we're going of of the day that bases that are going to help us build -- databases that are going to help us build new drugs, but how our privacy concerns are going to be affected. we may have to have a system where we say, count me in. i want my genetic, you know, information to be shared so that people can make things or i don't want it. those fascinate me and that's why i like being at the institute. it's not just about political stuff, it's about real interesting issues where science intersects with society, policy and business that i hope we can have practical solutions. >> host: lee bullhead city arizona. please go ahead with your question or comment. >> guest: thank you. took me seven calls and about an hour to get through. >> host: welcome. >> gue