Posted on 08/21/2017 7:19:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Something important happened in the field of education this month.
For the first time ever, any student anywhere can take top-quality courses online in every major freshman college subject, taught by professors from the most prestigious universities, that lead to full academic credit at 2,900 traditional colleges, such as Purdue, Penn State, Colorado State and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all absolutely free.
There is no tuition cost. No text book cost. No administrative or connection fees. No taxpayer subsidy or federal Title IV funding required. And this is not a plan for the future, but a working reality available to students now, already built, entirely as a private 501(c)(3) philanthropy, at an exceptionally efficient price.
The charity that built the courses, over 40 in all, is called the Modern States Education Alliance. It has a bipartisan set of allies that include the nation’s largest public college systems, such as the State University of New York system and Texas State, which themselves serve over one million students and want to improve college access. Modern States is a new type of “on-ramp to college” for any hardworking person anywhere, and a way to cut the cost of traditional four-year college by many thousands of dollars and up to 25 percent.
Now, anyone can go to ModernStates.org, the way they go to Netflix, and choose a college course the way they pick a Netflix movie. There is no charge for the course and no charge for the online textbook that comes with it. The student can watch the lectures at any time of the day or night, repeating any part of it as often as needed. When the student feels ready, they can take the CLEP exam (a well-established, credit-bearing test from the College Board....
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearlife.com ...
MIT has been placing all their courses online for years. No credit yet, but soon....
The concept of college is changing rapidly
Goodbye, institutions of higher propaganda. You have been amazoned. Now, sit still and take it like a man.....
Online education is a fine, but for many part of the joy of being in college is being there, around new kinds of people talking about new kinds of things in their own way.
I would not trade my college-days experiences and the connecting friendships for any online course anywhere.
Part of being away at college is learning to become a self sufficient adult, who does not immediately crumble when things go wrong. No one knows how they’ll react to life’s challenges until they have been tested in some fashion.
Awesome post. lol
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I agree with you, the memories I have of my young college days are priceless. The saddest thing is how unlovely and sordid colleges have become these days. If I had teenagers now, I would have great misgivings about sending them to one of these places for fear they would lose their souls.
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How old are you and how much did it cost to go to college then.
For me, tuition started at $169/quarter as a freshman and was up to $209/quarter as a senior in 1975. Room and board was about $1,000 to $1,300/year.
At today’s prices to go away for school, you can buy a very nice house in many parts of the country.
eyeroll... You have not been paying attention as to what is going on at our Universities...
“Part of being away at college is learning to become a self sufficient adult”
Your college days may have been wonderful but - you have no idea what college is like now.
If you went to college twenty years ago you would be shocked if you had to go back and experience it now. You wouldn’t recognize it.
Okay, here’s an idea for the tech-savvy.
Create an app called something like “the total college experience.” The idea is that when you’re studying for one of these free courses, it will interrupt you at regular intervals with voices of SJWs going on about some inanity. This will help recreate the experience of college. It would have options like “BLM”, “LGBT”, Intersectionality”, and so on.
One might say “what sane person would want such an app?” That would be the point. The mere existence of the app would show we on the right are mocking the left, and do they ever hate that!
So the website offers freshman courses (some of them my student took in high school), then what? If you are in a stem program you will need to actually go to college.
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>>Online education is a fine, but for many part of the joy of being in college is being there, around new kinds of people talking about new kinds of things in their own way.
I couldn’t stand the years I went to college on and off while working. It was a horrible and depressing place full of liberal idiot students and teachers. I hated it so much that I couldn’t even manage to finish and instead just concentrated on work in IT.
“No one knows how they’ll react to life’s challenges until they have been tested in some fashion.”
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Going away to college is hardly the only way to get “tested”.
As soon as you leave home you get tested,whether it’s a college dorm or an apartment with roomates and a full time job.
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If you raised your child right, they are not going to ‘lose their soul’.
My son attends a Big 10 university and if anything, he is more conservative now than when he started. Exposure to SJW’s up close and personal will do that to a person. :)
And if you are qualified to actually finish a STEM program you should be able to get financing and parental support. All my college children and grandchildren were/are in AS/BS/MS degree earning programs. Those that needed it, Grandpa, helped support!
Grandpas and Grandmas, put your money to work for immortality; support your STEM grandkids! You will be remembered forever, I've experienced it! I'm a healthy 76, but I already feel immortal!
The teachers teach for free and the Administrators administrate for free, is that right or are you playing word games? Need I ask?
Scholarships, grants, working through school, all let you go through without burdening the taxpayer or going into debt.
A Parental Review of the Book Debt-Free U
https://hubpages.com/literature/-A-Parental-Review-of-Debt-Free-U
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