Posted on 02/28/2021 10:03:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
RE: The UK is way ahead of the USA on this matter:
Well, the Netherlands, Hongkong and many other countries are ahead of the USA in this matter. Open Universities are in existence all over the world.
See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_universities
RE: Texas has had an accredited online only university for several years now.
Well, I just found out that New York’s State University (SUNY) system has started an Open University recently.
It’s called SUNY OPEN.
See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_SUNY
Our son had this raised when he enrolled in an online MBA program with the Univ of Phoenix. He did this because his medical insurance was maxing out and he found that if he went back to school he could get back on Mom and Dad’s plan. The insurance initially objected until they looked and found that 400 people from their MBA programs were being treated as though the programs were accredited by their employers — who were the same as my employer. Our son got a second degree and stayed out of debt (to the hospital at least) and now is disabled but able to earn a living.
Come to think of it, this program already exists and will do the same thing for their students. They do classes one at a time but at the same rate as an in person school. As I recall, the MBA that our son received was very similar to mine.
Read later.
You are on to something there- the “nonprofit” and tax-exempt parts of the tax code need a major cutback. There are too many profit-making businesses masquerading as nonprofits in order to dodge taxes or appear as charitable institutions. Colleges are supposedly one of the largest lobbying groups in Washington and they play with tax-free money. Requiring all nonprofits to report and pay taxes on monies spent lobbying the government or influencing the public on matters of public interest would be a great idea.
A lot of the real educations don’t work entirely online. Many engineering classes have labs that require hands-on presence. How does a doctor or nurse actually learn without touching and seeing stuff?
Sure, business or anything theory-based like straight math or law can be done entirely online. But a lot of stuff can’t. Is his national school going to just ignore those degrees?
Is this a National national school? Or is this just a private thing like University of Phoenix or that New Hampshire one that already offer online degrees to everyone and their mother? If it’s National, is he asking for an Amendment to add “education” to the Constitution?
I have been predicting this since the beginning of online education. There is no reason why a professor could not send a course out to a million or more students. It will not, of course, be Professor Smith from the community college, it will be an Ivy League professor sending out a course that is designed by a Hollywood production company.
Zoom is a crappy course delivery system and it will not suffice! But a university with a 100 billion dollar endowment can take over higher education by purchasing and using far superior technology. Your community college professor will have a roll as a part-time facilitator or essay reader, but that is it. Students will still hear the leftist garbage that the Ivy League preaches, but it would be less effective without the peer pressure.
By the way, I use Zoom quite often. People do not pay attention; they shut cameras off, eat sandwiches, play with their cats and dogs, wear their pajamas, and do many other things that I care not to describe. It is not a good teaching tool for immature adults, which is what most college students are.
If there was enough money available perhaps a conservative organization could build a conservative virtual university. Right now, the left controls high tech and the public perception still, evidently even D’souza believes it, is that the Ivy League provides a great education. The Ivy League long ago left the role of education behind and took on the role of indoctrination. The Ivy League is about pedigree, and leftist idealism. Your small regional state college will provide a better education.
Distraction? Troll?
This fits very well with MAGA.
Exactly so.
They can learn to code.
Then gird for the next battle, K-12.
That Gottfried article you sent me about clueless catering to political correctness so called conservatives
This fella always should be near the top
I've believed for awhile that many college students don't belong there.
“Dinesh D’Souza isn’t a total idiot”
No. He’s worse, he’s an opportunist. One who tried advancing his career by accusing conservatives of being racist. He managed to do real damage to Sam Francis, the writer whose works presaged Donald Trump. But since that occurred in the Print Era, America Before the Internet, few know or remember what that felonious rat did.
Exactly. Griggs v Duke Power forced dramatic changes in the way that corporations are able to hire.
That SCOTUS decision is why every American corporation now wants an unnecessary college degree instead of simply using their own in house testing.
Griggs is the unholy stepchild of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the very one that our current panoply of conservative talking heads gush over, bragging how it passed thanks to the GOP.
Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Buckley all opposed it, seeing it as thought policing and a vast and intrusive power grab by the federal bureaucracy. Guess who was right.
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