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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Organized education is corrupt and a scam.
Your probably one of those types that think Religion is the same thing. I find it funny that you use the same word structure that those anti-religious types use. Sometimes I wonder if you are conservative.
Now there's an idea for getting a grant: wind-powered sodomy-abortions.
A lot of organized religion is corrupt and a scam, and yes, a lot of the best true education - and the true relationships with Christ - come OUTSIDE OF THE MAIN LINE ORGANIZATIONS.
...then again, ensconsed in your little govt cubicle, you probably have missed this......
I’m not the least bit surprised. I never finished high school, taught myself how to program, bluffed my way into a job where I learned a lot and have made a good living ever since. I never had the patience for classroom learning but have been to a lot of useful short courses and seminars.
You are the pro life liberal, totally bureaucratic and liberal and pro government on every single issue....but you happen to be pro life. Your posts prove it.
The very idea that you would associate organized education and religiion with the only path to learning or Christianity is breathtaking, and not in a good way.
I was in the military for 24 years....I worked at Subway for a summer and walmart for a summer and now work at the very prestigious United States Naval Academy which I don’t consider government as it is an educational institution that falls under the government but really is far from the federal government. IRS is considered a federal government agency. I have NEVER once heard that the Naval Academy was a government agency.
Online academies are coming.
Prager U is not certified yet, but I’m grabbing three courses at once and loving it. Jean Rosenfeld promised me she’d give me an evaluation of the setup.
You wrote your statement, I didn’t. You need to look inside yourself on how you present your posts. I would love to know the real you. You seem like an arrogant type, but probably are a nice person.
It's not the money they are losing, they have billions in investments and endowments. It's the potential loss of useful idiots who they will not have the chance to indoctrinate towards liberal cultism.
Bump
I wonder if the on line colleges make you take anti-American studies, non-White studies, nonstandard-sex studies, White privilege studies, and other fluff?
You are the pro life liberal, totally bureaucratic and liberal and pro government on every single issue....but you happen to be pro life. Your posts prove it.
I don’t know about that however, aren’t you the one that found me from Kingdom Come and back during the primary when I pleaded with you to have Santorum as our nominee and you refused to listen to me and we ended up with that chomp Romney?
found = fought
You are so isolated and you make generalizations using you and your immediate family as your only anecdotal evidences. You do it all the time, and you are blitheringly naive as to what goes on outside your tiny little orbit. ANd you do have a govt mindset, on full display here on FR during all the threads on sequestration.
And while the mission of the Naval Academy is honorable, and defense is the first and most legit function of the Fed Govt, we all know that both are rife with bureaucratic bungling and desk jockeys. I have no idea what you do, though I believe you did mention it before and I do think I remember that it was bureaucratic in nature - which would make sense- because you bring a pro life yet govt bureaucratic mindset to many of your debates.
BTW, I normally pull for Navy to beat Army.....my dad was in the Navy, his service was on Aircraft carriers and destroyers in the Pacific theatre.
That proves that your grasp of reality is pretty loose.
Your paycheck comes from the US Government. I pay for it.
/johnny
And Santorum too, is very much a pro life liberal....not totally, but a history of liberal votes on unions, enviro whacko issues, supporting his darlin Arlen, etc....you and sweater vests are peas in a pod.
I got my degree through on line work. I spent about 30 hours a week studying, doing problems for turn in, collaborating via skype or online meeting rooms (with video, sometimes with the prof present) etc. Every three weeks I had a proctored exam at the local university where I had to show ID, turn in my phone, and sit under the watchful eye of an acceptable proctor while I took the exam that was sent directly to the proctor from my school, and turned into the proctor for returning to the school with a copy of my ID.
I can tell some anecdotes too. My sister is a Nursing Director at a large hospital system. There is a huge business for test takers for nurses and Dr’s - the test taker gets a fake ID with the name of the person they are taking the test for, gets a couple thousand dollars, and takes the test. Voila - instant DR or Nurse without having to learn a thing.
If someone is going to cheat, they will do so online or on campus. A cheater is a cheater.
As Bob Dylan sang, “Oh the times they are a changin’!”
A massive amount of material is available on-line. The only ingredient missing are certifiable and guaranteed qualifying exams for specific areas of knowledge. The certifiable and guaranteed exams could start with individual first grade subjects and proceed through to individual graduate school courses work.
Even a great deal of the material taught in professional schools, such as medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacology,...etc. is **very** routine stuff and could easily be placed on-line.
By the way....If the state K-12 schools and universities are **taxpayer** supported why hide this information from the taxpayer? All courses from 1st through graduate school should be placed on-line ( even professional courses found in professional schools such as medical and law ) and copy of the textbooks placed in all city and county libraries.
Wow, 1883?
Of course it could, and this scares the ever living sh-t out of the big education establishment scam. Just like the buggy whip industry......fighting to stop the automobile. How'd that turn out????
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