Monday, January 26, 2009

Why not pile up a couple of degrees?

Israeli Entrepreneur Plans a Free Global University That Will Be Online Only

3 comments:

dcat said...

Our best hope is that enough students continue to want the college experience, and not just to accumulate dubious degrees. Even at traditional universities the use of online classes is pervasive, but at least those courses are offered within a frameowrk of the traditional university and by people who also offer face-to-face time and thus are far less likely to water or dumb down their courses or otherwise turn their institutions into diploma mills.

dcat

Paul said...

Sure to ruffle some feathers:
http://townhall.com/columnists/
JohnStossel/2009/01/28/the_college_scam

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/
2009/0202/060_print.html
Don't agree with all of it, but it's worth discussing.

Ethan said...

Here is a differnt form - with the simple goal of making the classes available to all. http://www.academicearth.org/