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We have to ask ourselves: too expensive for what? Berkeley has a 7 billion dollar endowment. I am sure they could have found the budget to make the videos compliant. They simply chose not too.
Endowments can't be spent.
How can I actually use this course? When I try to Sign Up as a student I need a Registration Code. I don't have such thing since I am located in a different country.
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> In the public's mind one goes to an elite institution for access to elite education This is one area in which the public’s mind is (for the most part) very, very wrong. While there are certainly some excellent courses at elite schools, the general quality of instruction is quite low. Professors are not rewarded for good instruction and are not punished for relatively poor instruction. Class-oriented work takes time…
It's worth noting that there are elite schools with uniformly excellent undergraduate instruction quality, but they are not doctoral granting institutions. Williams, Swarthmore, Harvey Mudd, etc. They aren't "elite", but regional R2s also can be really well respected (CSU campuses come to mind), and I'm not sure where to file excellent schools with a narrower scope like Rose-Hulman either.
I should have specified HYPS (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford). I think these are the schools that the “public mind” think of as elite. I would personally add a few more to the list, but I think that the “public mind” probably wouldn’t understand why I included them.
Williams and similar schools are colleges. I always tell people to go to colleges if they want great instruction. There are many amazing colleges in the US.
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One factor may be that mechanical engineering remains dominated by expensive proprietary software, and the field is largely OK with that. Programming is unique in the sense that programmers can create their own tools, and have adopted an expectation that the most advanced tools should be free and easy to obtain. This culture could easily extend to making the training materials free too. Another factor is that "coding…
The lack of formal professional organizations is the biggest boon for computing. I'm glad we don't have an artificially low supply of programmers like we do doctors
(We're still very much at the "bloodletting, leech, and saw" part of our craft. Look at the horrors we inflict on our users.)
"CMU CS Academy is, and always will be, free for schools to offer to their students"
I wonder if soon all elite universities will make all of their curriculum and lectures free online, effectively turning them into content marketing to drive their customer acquisition funnel. The actual product will be a prestigious brand name, networking opportunities, and a laundered IQ test performed by the admissions committee anointing you with the stamp of approval at the gates. In the public's mind one goes to…
Alternatively, the big name universities could open up their exams. People will be able to say they passed the actual MIT CS exam, they just didn't go there. Of course I'm aware this might not fly with these institutions...
I think it would help a lot of people who don't have the means to move somewhere and not work a job for 4 years.
High school exams are already more or less like this, everyone takes the same test. Why not uni?
How come this or things like https://teachyourselfcs.com/ dont exist for other fields like mechanical engineering?