I'm not dismissive. I'm wary. It's not that educational stuff can't go online. I am a teacher by vocation and I have an imagination, so I can see some possibilities.
But the reality is that education is a relationship between two or more people, and between one generation and the next, it is not a pouring of content from one head into another. amd it should not be shaped by MBAs. In the current context, what I see happening is that a few star teachers will create the lectures (possibly with the promise of royalties), and then everyone else will be paid tomato-picker salaries to interact with students about the "content" of the lectures. This will lower costs and increase profits, but it will not improve education or enlighten consciousness. Joanna ----- Original Message ----- On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:56 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > The free lectures are what's known in the biz world as "loss leaders," and, > as the wizard of Oz tells us, it's not how much you know; it's not how smart > you are; it's the diploma and the accreditation. > > But I grant that one can access some good stuff on the internet that's made > available by the elite unis. > No, not "some" good stuff. TONS of *very* good stuff. You don't seem very impressed. You should really check out some of the iTunes U offerings. And that is just stuff posted online. From what I understand the new "Massive Open Online Courses" are much more than just stuff posted online. There are some great possibilities here that you should not be too dismissive about. https://www.ai-class.com/ -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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