Makes you wonder what we are paying for when students can just read a few powerpoints.
I am of the opinion that the US Dept of Education could provide some value by creating an open source cloud based framework for delivering educational content and make the content available for a small fee to school districts. Districts would then be able to develop or purchase content and provide it to their students.
Full disclosure -
I got my associates on-line from Colorado Technical University and I am finishing my BS in Networking and Security on-line from Western Governors University this spring. Will be moving into their masters in cyber security following graduation.
don’t know much about lab science
don’t much about medical care
don’t much about anything hands-on
don’t much about real world fare
but I do know left-wing indoctrination
me and other students across the nation
our in-person classes are all suspended
and everything has been upended
right is wrong and wrong and right
and there’s no way but fight or flight
oh what a wonderful socialist I will be
Time to drastically cut the cost of college.
Good. Now keep it this way. Technology is such that there is no need for lecture halls any longer.
And all the college students who paid their tuition for their classes, a place to stay, and the food to eat; are COMPLETELY screwed. Embrace the suck of an overbearing government, kids. I hope you learn a valuable life lesson.
It’s hard to have a protest when you’re quarantined.
In many cases, if institutions of “higher learning” were shut down entirely, we’d be collectively smarter as a nation.
My son is in high school and the schools here are closed now for up to two weeks. All the kids have school issued laptops and were given assignments before school was dismissed on Friday. They have a website where they can log into and continue their lessons.
“Traditional higher education” is DEAD, and died a long time ago when they removed “dead white guys” and western civilization and values from the curriculum in favor of diversity, people of color other than “white” (which is not a color but the absence of color), Marxist, Islamic or other anti-American ideology, etc.
No more Socrates or Plato self examination, but a lot of dogma and indoctrination.