From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Aug 29 2003 - 11:17:21 MDT
This seems Extropic...
MIT Everywhere
Wired Magazine, Issue 11.09 (September 2003)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/mit_pr.html
I do highly value the "standard" educational process
(I've had a few professors that won Nobel prizes -- and
some that didn't (no nobel prizes for "history") who were
still outstanding). But I believe that at $41,000/yr
(is that what MIT really costs now???) quality education
may be "overvalued". Given the number of hits they are
getting it sounds like they could charge a lot less to a
lot more people and get a higher income.
Raises some interesting questions as to whether or not
the entire "university" system is now, or is about to be,
"broken"? I'd much rather do distance learning (if the
technology supports it) from the best 500 teachers in the
world than attend lots of classes from mostly so-so professors
or teachers.
Then of course one gets into the question of whether the
way to decrease educational costs (and indirectly taxes)
is to make all public school systems use distributed learning.
If a teacher can teach 10,000 instead of only 30, why not
allow them to do so? (Of course some adjustment would be
required for "support/question" activities, but MIT seems
to have resolved some of that.)
Robert
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