Well said! Unfortunately, higher ed is notorious when it comes to removing anything from the curriculum. Every new initiative adds something, but nobody ever wants to fight the cumbersome bureaucracy required to remove outdated content.

At one of the colleges where I previously worked as a physics professor, there was a huge statewide initiative to reduce calculus from 5 to 4 credits. When I asked my math colleagues which parts they had removed from the syllabus, the answer was: none. They were determined to speak faster and somehow make up for the missing hour of class time every week!?!

I would like to think of that answer as a joke—a tongue-in-cheek response from an exasperated colleague. But the reality on the ground is that our college courses are burdened with outdated content that nobody has the political will to go through the motions of removing. And few of us have the rare opportunity to start something from scratch.

But the time has come for our digital educational paradigm to shift into a new phase—that of curated content. I used to tell my students that they didn't pay for my class for the content; they paid for access to a human expert in real time and for the curated course materials that allowed them to navigate the subject in a fraction of the time it would take if they had to sift through all the freely available internet resources themselves.

And that is well worth the money...