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M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All
Forbes ^
| 12/21/2011
| James Marshall Crotty
Posted on 01/07/2012 3:23:43 PM PST by Sprite518
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I’m sure this will somehow hurt women and minorities.
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:51:09 PM PST
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
To: Jonty30
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
There’s big money here as well.
How many people go to MIT now, compared with the millions that would be willing to pay for exams to get credited.
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:53:23 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: Sprite518
Courses for free, text books $27,000 each! ;-)
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:54:12 PM PST
by
The Chief
(Volunteer Fire Fighter since 1989, 20+ years!)
To: Sprite518
You can take the classes but they are *NOT* going to give you the degree?
Why not?
Is it because the communists who run MIT want to make money on a product they’re offering?
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:58:05 PM PST
by
Tzimisce
(Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
To: The Chief
“Courses for free, text books $27,000 each! ;-)”
Plus S&H, of course.
To: Rokurota
knowledge has always been free for the taking, and, with the internet, more is available than ever before, the problem is that few have the drive or ambition to take it and learn it.
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
If education is of a benefit to society than put it online for free. You could then go to the campus for testing for a reasonable fee. Best idea in education ever!
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posted on
01/07/2012 4:03:49 PM PST
by
Valpal1
(Worst tyranny is to force a man to pay for what he does not want because you think it good for him.)
To: Magic Fingers
E-bay, Amazon, Craig’s List and even some web site have a lot of books for dirt cheap or free. Where there is a will there is a way.
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
To: Tzimisce
Is it not the function of a free market to offer a service or product and charge what people are willing to pay?
MIT is actually removing the socialistic gateway from their product and putting it out on the free market.
This is something we should support.
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posted on
01/07/2012 4:15:02 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: Magic Fingers
This site is $12 a month to download all the free electronic books and documents you want. It’s one of many that do this. I would be willing to bet they have some of the M.I.T. books.
http://www.scribd.com/
To: Jonty30
To: Sprite518
There are TONS of educational material on the web - everything from lectures to math demos to animated frog dissections to you-name-it. Other than for social and/or sports reasons, (or of course the free lunch & babysitting service) the educational institutions are bound for change.
There will be the wailing & gnashing of teeth of the entrenched educational establishment, but it’s just a matter of time.
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posted on
01/07/2012 4:21:32 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: Sprite518
Interesting site, thanks.
To: P.O.E.
No doubt Educators will fight this tooth and nail...
To: Sprite518
They will make the money with the text books. Have you priced them recently? Criminal.
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posted on
01/07/2012 4:36:46 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!")
To: Sprite518
What's important though is that perhaps it will interest enough people to become scientist and engineers.
Science gets a lot of lip service, but companies don't want to PAY for technical expertise. They want it cheap, and they want to hire it in the form of contractors. This is not the way to make new technology happen. I would not advise anyone to go into the sciences--the courses are tough, you end up spend 20 class hours for a 5 hour credit because of the lab courses, and then when you graduate, you find yourself reporting to some slug with a marketing degree. It only gets better as you gain experience, because your experience is downgraded--"entry level" jobs with 3-5 years industrial experience. This country has to get serious about employing the technical people we already have before hatching out legions more.
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posted on
01/07/2012 4:37:16 PM PST
by
Nepeta
To: Tailback
I’ve had this feeling for awhile that the internet revolution will lead to specific Universities losing power, while certain Professors will gain power almost reaching superstar status. If you can pick and choose which professor you learn from nationwide for credit in a specific course, why choose some nutcase liberal? Why would anyone not choose Victor Davis Hansen for classical studies?
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posted on
01/07/2012 4:48:13 PM PST
by
Tailback
To: Jonty30
Right off the top all you need are a small army of top quality animators and you can do all sorts of things.
At the moment we are a bit short handed but we're catching up fast.
Watch advertising on TV for a good taste of where we are going.
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posted on
01/07/2012 4:49:48 PM PST
by
muawiyah
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