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wintermute
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 Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:20 pm Post subject: MIT online & The changing nature of higher education |
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http://thenewamerican.com/culture/education/10672-mits-online-threat-to-the-higher-education-cartel
Just before Christmas the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced a small improvement to its 2,100 free online courses: The free online service will now grant, for a modest affordable fee, credentials for those online students who gain mastery of the subject. Instead of calling it MIT 2.0, they named it MITx, and it is likely to challenge and change the higher education paradigm and the cartel that runs it.
Very interesting article about MIT's revolutionary free-online-education-for-all model and the effect it will have on the current system.
Anyone participated in MIT's online courses? |
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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| The president of Harvard, Susan Hockfield, said that the improvement will �create learning opportunities that [will] break barriers to education everywhere.� This is what Michael Hart, an early pioneer of the Internet and founder of the Gutenberg Project, predicted back in 1971 when he discovered the potential power of the internet �to overturn all established power structures.� Higher education�s paradigm of providing expensive pieces of paper only to the elite who can afford them is happily evaporating. What�s ironic is that the overturning is being driven by one of their own. |
I am absolutely loving this idea.  |
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pkang0202
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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I don't see how this will change anything.
A noble endeavor, yes, but it changes nothing. I could have completed 100 classes on that online MIT, but someone with a real MIT diploma will still get hired over me. |
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UknowsI
Joined: 16 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
I don't see how this will change anything.
A noble endeavor, yes, but it changes nothing. I could have completed 100 classes on that online MIT, but someone with a real MIT diploma will still get hired over me. |
This is not supposed to be an alternative for those who are accepted to MIT, but are uncertain if they want to move to Boston or not. For a person who doesn't have the opportunity to attend a good university or for a person who wants to study by himself or while doing other things, this is a very good initiative. This is of course especially true for people living in developing countries, but it is also something that can be used for gifted students in high school. |
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recessiontime
Joined: 21 Jun 2010
Location: Got avatar privileges nyahahaha
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
I don't see how this will change anything.
A noble endeavor, yes, but it changes nothing. I could have completed 100 classes on that online MIT, but someone with a real MIT diploma will still get hired over me. |
Outside of your hogwan boss, can you remember an instance when an employer asked to see your degree or transcript? |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| recessiontime wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
I don't see how this will change anything.
A noble endeavor, yes, but it changes nothing. I could have completed 100 classes on that online MIT, but someone with a real MIT diploma will still get hired over me. |
Outside of your hogwan boss, can you remember an instance when an employer asked to see your degree or transcript? |
Its called a Resume. And you DO have to list your education on there.
You do know what a Resume is right? Its what companies read in order to offer you an interview. Usually, person from a good school gets an interview. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| recessiontime wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
I don't see how this will change anything.
A noble endeavor, yes, but it changes nothing. I could have completed 100 classes on that online MIT, but someone with a real MIT diploma will still get hired over me. |
Outside of your hogwan boss, can you remember an instance when an employer asked to see your degree or transcript? |
EVERY time in EVERY country when I have applied for a work visa/work permit abroad.
In many instances immigration also wanted to see them. The same is true of the labor office in a few countries even AFTER immigration got copies and the visa was issued.
In some cases they even wanted them authenticated.
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