You can already get a world class education watching YouTube videos from MIT, Stanford, Yale and a host other colleges
Well, get going on it, dude. We’re right there with you.
Of course expect the big tech Thought Police who process most of the internet traffic through their servers to shut it down.
If you find the best professors in the country, you can turn them into rockstars with online courses. Pay them like athletes, stick them online and conduct tests at a centralized location.
This wouldn’t work for every subject...but it would for very many of them.
It would put regular “community” colleges out of business. It would be relatively cheap, access could be free, and the world could learn.
But no, let’s push money at an old system.
If ever there was an institution overdue for demolition it’s the worse than useless and hopelessly corrupt American academy.
This is for real, from an accredited institution and ready to go now.
There are a lot of online universities now, and are pretty reasonable. My son uses Liberty (I know about the scandal with Falwell’s son but it has not affected the curriculum or the professors)
The curriculum is conservative and faith based. We have been very happy with it.
Should have been done ten years ago!!!
What a great idea!! I really hope it goes somewhere.
Something has to be done to defeat the Government-Academia Complex.
Yes, yes, and yes.
There are indeed a number of other online options; a major new rollout would help publicize the existing options as well as exploit the many possibilities out there for new buyers and sellers in the smarts market. The other thing to play up big in conjunction with this is:
“If you’re telling me that this country should forgive all student loans, you’re telling me that getting a college degree isn’t worth what you were told it was worth.”
And put that statement up against a graph of the growth of the cost of living vs. the growth in the cost of a 4-year degree since 1970.
Would make a lovely billboard, methinks.
My daughter is taking classes at Unbound for her undergraduate work. It’s essentially what Dinesh is suggesting and is extremely affordable.
I’m all in.
Well, yes. As I recall hearing on Bill Bennett’s show some years ago: “the model for classroom teaching as practiced in colleges is now 1000 years old”!.
When I see this kind of stuff I always remember that Abe Lincoln had no formal education and was self taught...beginning with teaching himself to read.
The US spends tons of money on ‘education’, and kids know less with every batch of graduates.
What does that tell us? If you don’t want to learn and won’t apply yourself, no amount of money will get you an education. If you want to learn and you apply yourself, you will succeed despite all/any obstacles
the BIG LEFT will go after anything that is created, just like they do for profit schools and Christian schools who remain “unaccredited” to avoid government interference in what they teach.
The Education Industrial Complex will demonize these efforts and never allow accreditation to delegitimize the education.
Love this idea, love it.
Fifty plus years ago, in my first income tax course at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the professor made a joke: "There are 3 rules of taxation you need to memorize. Somebody will be changing everything else, so be prepared to keep looking up current law to know what to do."
We all laughed, but that statement remains one of the few things I learned in college that is still true today. Of course, the first tax course was a requirement to earn a BS in Accounting, and he was the only professor teaching that class, so we all heard it.
I like the concept but I am of the opinion that a “University Marketplace” would be a better concept. Basically each class has a required set of tests / labs. The University then assembles a syllabus of classes/videos/books etc that are recommended for study for each subject. Classes than then be selected and taken by the student from the instructor that has a teaching style that best fits the student’s learning method.
There is already a similar structure in the IT world. Between YouTube, Udemy, CBTNuggets and others, there are a wide range of topics covered in these online classes that can be purchased individually or in groups.
That way, those that already know the material and need little if any classwork or training can proceed directly to testing. Those that need a lot of help can go find the assistance that they need, and teachers/professors/instructors can get paid for their instruction.
What the student pays the “university” for is the tracking and record of progress and conference of a degree or certification upon completion of the criteria.
What about science labs?
Learn plumbing. Plumbers make a fortune.