I Can’t Afford a Bachelor’s Degree, So I’m Making My Own
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I Can’t Afford a Bachelor’s Degree, So I’m Making My Own
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#2This strikes me as potentially much more disruptive than MOOCs and much closer to the original concept of the university.
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#3do you have an estimate of the cost for a full first degree? even one that's very broad will help me understand your idea better.
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#4I'm not going to have any sympathy for argument that starts out with the demand that a person be able to get their education locally. A great many people have to go somewhere else and move around for school. That is the norm in a great many places. Also to pursue work, many people have to move.
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#5I'm not going to have any sympathy for argument that starts out with the demand that a person be able to get their education locally . A great many people have to go somewhere else and move around for school. That is the norm in a great many places. Also to pursue work, many people have to move.
Does your lack of sympathy to that point matter terribly?
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#6I'm not going to have any sympathy for argument that starts out with the demand that a person be able to get their education locally . A great many people have to go somewhere else and move around for school. That is the norm in a great many places. Also to pursue work, many people have to move.
Does your lack of sympathy to that point matter terribly?
Not at all, especially when the click-through link asking for Professors says: "Work from anywhere. Online or in person - the choice is yours."
This seems like the beginnings of something great. I'm very curious to see how it shapes up.
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#7I'm not going to have any sympathy for argument that starts out with the demand that a person be able to get their education locally . A great many people have to go somewhere else and move around for school. That is the norm in a great many places. Also to pursue work, many people have to move.
The whole point of this is to disrupt the current education model, and your criticism is that it doesn't follow an aspect of the current education model.
Yes, a lot of people travel away from home for school. I'm sure it can be a great experience. Should that be a requirement for an excellent education? Of course not.
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#8This strikes me as potentially much more disruptive than MOOCs and much closer to the original concept of the university.
I agree, awesome name too.
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#9So. Instead of paying a bunch of money and spending a lot of time on something that didn't feel right, you struck out on your own and self-educated yourself.
Own that decision! Having a fake Bachelor's degree from some fake accreditation system you invented will just make you seem like you're defensive about it or trying to pull one over on people or something. It just feels weird.
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#10Opening an accrediting agency is the wrong first move. There's lots of space to work within the system that's already being opened up to you easily and cheaply.
Try these two accredited schools that will award degrees entirely by examination, remote classes, independent study, project-based learning, and other proven study that matches a rigorous college program:
Excelsior is a traditional remote-degree program with lots of help to find you the right courses and get credit for them. Western Governors is new, online, and more experimental. Either one can both help you find ways to learn and get you the sheepskin bureaucrats need to hire you.
And they'll both handle all the accrediting for you.