Jeffrey R. Young, tech editor and author of the Wired Campus blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education, follows up on a call from a professor we got last week about the explosion of online learning in America.
Jeffrey R. Young, tech editor and author of the Wired Campus blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education, follows up on a call from a professor we got last week about the explosion of online learning in America.
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Because in many courses in college, the teaching is just awful. MIT and Harvard and Stanford are brave enough to allow their teaching to be exposed to the public. Having been to two semi-highly regarded universities, if I could get a refund for some of my classes I would have due to the awful experience (eg, shoddy teaching or shoddy grading or shoddy material). Universities need to be held accountable for the quality of their courses.
Can you take lab courses this way?
Michael Crow, now the president of Arizona State University, was the Executive Vice Provost of Columbia until 2002. Under his leadership, Columbia stared a consortium of universities in the U.S. and the U. K. to offer courses online and company to the market on-line courses. The new president of CU ended that program as soon as it could legally do so...and lost the opportunity to lead in an area where other top tier universities are now moving.
One of the problems with this type of learning for high school students is that they actually seem to need the interaction with humans. My sister has been teaching an online course and she really has to do a lot of work with her students to compensate for the lack of human interaction. She's finding that those who do best are those on the autistic spectrum -- the loners.
As for me, I'd love to figure out how to do this for my profession. Colleges don't offer degrees in lactation consulting so those who want to go into the profession have to scramble to get the prerequisites. A modified mook, where there was some low level payment might be just the thing to provide courses that are specifically designed for our profession.
I applied to an Online Course thru edX & Harvard Law School. The course is HLSx: Copyright. B/C it is Harvard? there is a Selection Process. It is Free and you get a Certificate. So I might get credential(s) from Harvard. Such a Deal!
During my transition from graphic designer to web developer. I used the following:
• Teamtreehouse.com: User unlocks badges from content delivered via video.
• Lynda.com: video based model with downloadable assets used to help complete projects
• codeschool.org
• codeschool.com
• codecademy.com: Totally free. And everything takes place in the browser!
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