Posted on 10/11/2011 5:17:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Or you could blame it on Al Gore.
Standford is not part of the UC system, and they already have some online classes going now.
One has over 160,000 students signed up, from across the world.
Let the snots at UC collapse for lack of PAYING STUDENTS.
Oh, and the legislature did away with tenure for new teacher hires.
The teachers unions recognized the camel's nose when they saw it, and are still howling.
Yes, and there is nothing they can do. They priced themselves out of their own market and didn't realize it until it was too late that technology rendered them obsolete. Nothing can stop this trend, although there is some value in being present in a laboratory for hands on work. The undergraduate degrees will become online, and the graduate courses will be more applied, hands on experimentation.
Thanks for that Freeper.
Worksheets and tests can be graded by a combination of computer programs and low wage third world workers.
One can see from the progressive-Marxist attack on charter schools, for profit post high-school education, and now on the television classroom (which is the wave of the future, thanks to the greed of the Education establlishment) the times are a changing.
Television programming that leads to a college degree could begin with University A, creating its own television programming; it then purchases a television station and places that station on satellite and cable TV. Students “attend” TV lectures, are given reading lists, take midterms and finals. This is done while the student holds down a day job, and studies at night.
A while back I thought that Brigham Young was about to enter on such a venture. I don;t know where that led. However, one thing I do know is that the American middle class can no longer tolerate a university education that cost 20K and up per annum.
“Much of the reason for the change happened because businesses weren’t allowed to test for IQ’s anymore, so they substituted the requirement for a post-secondary diploma instead.”
Absolutely correct. You can thank the SCOTUS for that one.
Commie scumbags
That sounds clear enough to me.
Higher education, indeed all education no longer exists for the benefit of the learners, the students, but for the permanent maintenance of the political and financial special benefits enjoyed by the Teacher Unions, the remorae of our degenerate political system.
Anyone even remotely aware of the difference between primary and higher education and the needs of each group of students, and the "special," privileged perverted existence of tenure can condemn internet classes and the corresponding enormous reduction in cost.
The Unions are the buggy whip promoters of higher education. Reality says that one excellent internet lecturer-teacher can outperform a thousand educational hacks. Inevitably that must displace $400,000 Universities, and the distorted artificial value of Union diplomas.
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