In other words, in Silicon Valley VC-speak: "what is the value-add proposition" of these for-profit companies in creating and distributing MOOCs? I don't think they have much to offer, which is why they are likely doomed as business ventures.
The Harvard/MIT/Berkeley non-profit EdX is an attempt by these institutions to do exactly what you suggest: cut out the middle man and make their own damn videos. -raghu. -------------- EdX is not free. And they are very cagey about how much. I presume it's for registered students...so tutition, and the only break seems to be lower cost course fee. In other words a university based racket. And the content? What I think of as Technocrapology. Right now I need a quick overview guide of Aristotle and specific locations in the Organon, Physica, Metaphysica for the parts of logic and its uses available to Medieval Scholastics. Why would you want to know that? Nevermind. I just spent about a week tracking down the logic, which is not in one location but scattered throughout the same above three collections. There was a pay-off for this work. I finally understood what the fuck the Scholastics were doing---the same damned work I did of find it, make it intelligible, make it cohere. Nothing like re-inventing the wheel for a over two thousand years. So, I've gone through several videos on A and didn't get any of that, naturally. This is evidently `specialist' stuff. Nobody really seems to teach him. He's in a some reference section like geometry. You're supposed to know Aristotle or geometry somewhere else before you get to wherever you are, and they are talking about him. I found all sorts of stuff in the dustbin.. What Marx and his species being is all about. and where the abstract armature of Marx's work came from. Also the crude outline of Kant's critiques, Hegel's system in the grand scheme, Spinoza and the techincalities of why he was thrown out of Judaism, insights into the Cartesian systems.... why the grand reaction of the Catholic Church to `modernity' that installed the Jus Codicis 1917 to return to Thomist thought back into the catholic college system. It was just amazing (to me and probably no one else) what you can turn up ... CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
