Posted on 08/30/2013 7:43:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Georgia Institute of Technology rocked the higher education world when it announced plans to offer a fully online master’s degree in computer science for roughly one-seventh the price of its on-campus equivalent – less than $7,000. The project is powered by a joint venture with Udacity, an online higher-education course provider that stands to earn 40 percent of the tuition revenues. The AT&T Corporation, which is providing two-thirds of the estimated ramp-up costs, expects to funnel existing employees through the program and recruit new ones at the back-end of it.
Reaction to the news has been mixed.
Online education advocates are excited about what they see as an opportunity for broad access to substantially more affordable higher learning.
Others worry that the wholesale democratization of higher education will lead to deteriorating outcomes and the diluted quality of advanced degrees—particularly as a larger number of students are attracted to the courses. There is also a fair amount of academic carping about the competition—how joint ventures such as this will hijack resources that might otherwise be used to develop and deliver the staff’s own groundbreaking programs.
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Hell yes......and there's even an entire hit TV series where the lead character is based on this VERY idea (Suits).
/johnny
The point is for the free market to handle this.
I started with COBOL on an IBM sys III
pre vt100 days.
You are so right...the free market will sort this out, unless that is, the cronyies in Big Ed are able to use the government as a blunt instrument to pervert the market. This is what liberals have done not only in education, but in energy, housing, mortgages, etc, for decades, and almost every free market failure in history was due to government perversion. Every free market recovery in history was due to the invisible hand of the market and the dyanamics it drives using human nature as the fuel.
A VT100?
Whazdat? /s
Spot on. All you need to do is get in the door. Really, if you’re good, all you need is an interview.
Show me a Marxist, and I’ll show you someone who not only can’t compete, but believes he’s entitled to stamp out the very idea of competition.
Which is why the Feds don’t like the 2nd Amendment.
The interview is the biggie.
If you can sustain the high pressure interview, were 3 people hit you all at once, keep your cool and stay sharp, you are likely to get the job.
Lol.
That is, of course, in the real world. In the world of academia, a self perpetuating scam that does some good by accident, they love to hire those who follow their own behind the times close minded career path.
This is why teachers get automatic raises when they get another post grad degree, There is no demonstrable improvement in their ability to teach, but since they have to pay tuition to big ed to get raises in big ed, this is how the whole stinky tenured system keeps sucking us dry.
Meanwhile, a good laptop and some traveling around the country or world can teach you more than any classroom ever could.
Which is how insurance licenses are usually done. Train on your own, with or without assistance, and then test at a monitored testing center.
An apple laptop.
I don’t think so. LOL
Remember finger boning boot code?
Employers know GA Tech degrees generally haven’t been diluted. At least the old school stuff like Engineering, Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics, etc. haven’t.
This isn’t a Liberal Arts college with a ton of Minority Womyn’s Studies majors and such.
Part of the issue is that online studying is just easier: you don’t have to commute, you don’t have to juggle your schedule with your regular job, you don’t have to work with and get along with other people in your class. If you want to watch the lecture at 2 in the afternoon or 6 in the morning or on Sunday night, you can do that. And with a $7000 degree, you don’t have to work even harder either before, during, or after you get your MBA to come up with the six-figure tuition at traditional schools. In other words, it’s just easier. Employers know this. If you show up with your $7000 degree, they know you were probably not as determined and probably didn’t have to make the sacrifices and accommodations and get as exhausted and still perform under pressure like the guy who has his MBA from Wharton or Georgetown or the University of Chicago. They will have an idea that the job candidate with the U of C degree clutched in his hot little hand will be able to perform when under physical, mental, and personal pressure.
No offense to anyone, but I did graduate work in a regular university and then took online courses recently, and despite the rigor of the material treated in the online courses, it was simply a whole lot easier since the need to be on campus was not present.
>>I think what will be really cool is when computer intelligence becomes competent enough to be conversant. You’d be able to interact with a computer program that can act as a teacher and you could be taught one-on-one until you get it.<<
That’s when social engineering will kick into high speed. The best part is you’ll love being converted into a rock solid Communist. The future will be guaranteed.
Oh, yes.
And flipping through the book, to try and figure out what the 2-digit led error code meant.
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