Once something is offered for free, others will find a way to offer something better that they can charge for, thus the free courses offered now by MIT et al. will soon be surpassed by far superior for-pay ones, but either way the bar has been raised.
Of course, with online education's arrival, the first thing that will have to go is most of the old educational institutions. And considering their pyramid scheme of producing college grads with zero job prospects and gigantic lifetime debts from student loans, the sooner the better.
If educational institutions wish to survive at all, they have to cut online education in by paying them to help teach their students.
I'm prejudiced, because that's what I'm building now, an online world history school that teaches the subject far better than the educational establishment has been doing, and is offering free courses now but has a plan of ramping up to even more powerful services as educational institutions begin paying to sign their students up. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Actually, if educational institutions want to survive they must produce graduates who eagerly seek out and sponge up all the online education they can use throughout life, serving as their coming of age launching pad and letting them soar.
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Once something is offered for free, others will find a way to offer something better that they can charge for, thus the free courses offered now by MIT et al. will soon be surpassed by far superior for-pay ones, but either way the bar has been raised.
Of course, with online education's arrival, the first thing that will have to go is most of the old educational institutions. And considering their pyramid scheme of producing college grads with zero job prospects and gigantic lifetime debts from student loans, the sooner the better.
If educational institutions wish to survive at all, they have to cut online education in by paying them to help teach their students.
I'm prejudiced, because that's what I'm building now, an online world history school that teaches the subject far better than the educational establishment has been doing, and is offering free courses now but has a plan of ramping up to even more powerful services as educational institutions begin paying to sign their students up. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Actually, if educational institutions want to survive they must produce graduates who eagerly seek out and sponge up all the online education they can use throughout life, serving as their coming of age launching pad and letting them soar.
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