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.
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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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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.
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Good post!
there is a charge to take the exams.
The College Board charges $92 to take each of the AP exams and $85 to take each of the CLEP exams.
“For the first time ever...” Yeah, right.
Edx, Coursera, Udacity and Boundless have been around for five years or more. The problem is that taking online courses is boring. I’ve taken three and wow. Boring.
Does this generate transferable credits, to top rated colleges and universities?
The majority of college courses can be taught online at very minimal prices. There are some courses in science and engineering and very particularly the medical field that need hands on experience in labs and with patients. These courses are expensive to provide because of the infrastructure needed to teach this hands on experience. You can not get that experience in front of a computer. There is also an interactive between professor and students that is essential for certain courses. This is expensive.
Most of the other courses can be provided at very low costs.
The real problem with university is it does not respond to market forces due to insane amounts of government largess to students for tuition etc.
For example in 1966 I could earn enough money roughnecking on the drilling rigs in the summer to pay my room and board and tuition for two full semesters. Today if I were a roughneck I could only earn a fraction of what I would need for two semesters of university. Government programs have totally distorted normal market forces relative to the cost of university.
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I earned 25 hours of credit by CLEP exams and another 6 hours in aviation (I was a pharmacy student not aviation) due to my commercial aviation tickets.. I bought the books, studied and took the tests. This saved me the cost of a year in university. I was paying and wanted out as quick as possible! It was my money.
It should be noted that I was not a great student when I first went to university. I flunked out and went back to the drilling rigs for 5 years. When I returned to university with a major attitude adjustment, I did well, and acquired a degree in geology and then returned some years later to get a degree in pharmacy. My own individual work paid for all of this. No grants but I did have some small loans that I paid back early.
We live in a great nation! We must not lose it.
I occasionally take classes from edX. They are free and many are from top notch universities. There are also financial classes for free, can’t remember the site. Even though I’m in the medical field I still like to challenge myself.
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I just go to youtube and find a video showing me a how-to.