Posted on 01/07/2012 3:23:43 PM PST by Sprite518
For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the “social injustice” of college tuition, here’s a curveball bound to scramble your worldview: a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I’m sure this will somehow hurt women and minorities.
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There’s big money here as well.
How many people go to MIT now, compared with the millions that would be willing to pay for exams to get credited.
Courses for free, text books $27,000 each! ;-)
You can take the classes but they are *NOT* going to give you the degree?
Why not?
Is it because the communists who run MIT want to make money on a product they’re offering?
“Courses for free, text books $27,000 each! ;-)”
Plus S&H, of course.
knowledge has always been free for the taking, and, with the internet, more is available than ever before, the problem is that few have the drive or ambition to take it and learn it.
Best idea in education ever!
E-bay, Amazon, Craig’s List and even some web site have a lot of books for dirt cheap or free. Where there is a will there is a way.
Outstanding idea!
Is it not the function of a free market to offer a service or product and charge what people are willing to pay?
MIT is actually removing the socialistic gateway from their product and putting it out on the free market.
This is something we should support.
This site is $12 a month to download all the free electronic books and documents you want. It’s one of many that do this. I would be willing to bet they have some of the M.I.T. books.
Agree 100%
There are TONS of educational material on the web - everything from lectures to math demos to animated frog dissections to you-name-it. Other than for social and/or sports reasons, (or of course the free lunch & babysitting service) the educational institutions are bound for change.
There will be the wailing & gnashing of teeth of the entrenched educational establishment, but it’s just a matter of time.
Interesting site, thanks.
No doubt Educators will fight this tooth and nail...
They will make the money with the text books. Have you priced them recently? Criminal.
I’ve had this feeling for awhile that the internet revolution will lead to specific Universities losing power, while certain Professors will gain power almost reaching superstar status. If you can pick and choose which professor you learn from nationwide for credit in a specific course, why choose some nutcase liberal? Why would anyone not choose Victor Davis Hansen for classical studies?
At the moment we are a bit short handed but we're catching up fast.
Watch advertising on TV for a good taste of where we are going.
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