Increasing Popularity of MIT OpenCourseWare
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Increasing Popularity of MIT OpenCourseWare
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Re: Increasing Popularity of MIT OpenCourseWare
#2I'm sure I'm not the only person on Hacker News to have taken advantage of OpenCourseWare. If any of the MIT folks are reading this thread, I'd just like to offer my sincere thanks for the good work you do.
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#3I'd never heard of it, but I've just signed up for one via iTunes U. These look awesome. It will be interesting to see where the world of education goes in the next decade. Personally I'm looking for resources for younger children (5-15) for my own children
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#4I like Gilbert Strang's math courses, and Robert Gallager's Digital communications.
On the other coast, I like Stephen Boyd's Linear Dynamical Systems and Convext Optimization courses quite well. I wish Stanford would do more like these.
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#5I'd never heard of it, but I've just signed up for one via iTunes U. These look awesome. It will be interesting to see where the world of education goes in the next decade. Personally I'm looking for resources for younger children (5-15) for my own children
Kahn Academy, also available on I-Tunes U, has some great material for younger learners.
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#6There was a minor controversy on campus when OpenCourseWare was being rolled out. Some students thought opening up the courses was unfair since they worked hard to get in and paid $30k+ per year to attend MIT.
I'm glad these folks didn't win that debate ;)
I'm currently working on a startup to push what MIT has done even further. If you're willing to provide some feedback, then drop me an email for a preview.
Re: Increasing Popularity of MIT OpenCourseWare
#7I'd never heard of it, but I've just signed up for one via iTunes U. These look awesome. It will be interesting to see where the world of education goes in the next decade. Personally I'm looking for resources for younger children (5-15) for my own children
This is one of the only things that really annoys me about these courses, is that they are often only available via iTunes U. I don't have, nor do I want, iTunes. I shouldn't have to fire up a VM to access "open" content. I deal with it but it bugs the crap out of me.
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#8Between programs like OCW and Khan Academy, how long can education costs continue to increase at their current rates?
I can't imagine students in the future accepting paying $50k? $60k? more? per year when the opportunity exists for inexpensive and high quality programs online. Maybe a lower cost hybrid program would work (to allow for better peer and faculty interaction) or at least the acceptance of an online degree. Probably not immediate future - but I imagine that changes to our higher education system will come.
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#10Between programs like OCW and Khan Academy, how long can education costs continue to increase at their current rates? I can't imagine students in the future accepting paying $50k? $60k? more? per year when the opportunity exists for inexpensive and high quality programs online. Maybe a lower cost hybrid program would work (to allow for better peer and faculty interaction) or at least the acceptance of an online degre…
Presumably at places like MIT the credential value of a degree is still worth a lot, particularly for those looking for careers in credential-reliant sectors such as academia, but one wonders for how long second- and third-tier institutions with low or no credential value can continue when excellent and free programs like this are so widely available.