On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Edward Angel <an...@cs.unm.edu> wrote:
> Of course that's all true but I think you're wiggling out of the essence > of the question. Is the student who is honest and sincere about becoming a > computer scientist (but perhaps not focussed yet on some of the specific > programs at digipen) better off going to digipen over UW? You can average > your response over lots of students. > No. Digipen is for people with clear focus. U-dub would be the better choice for the honest and sincere computer science candidate. (By the way, Digipen in Redmond is an in-person school, it shares an office park with Nintendo, students live off campus.) But this _is_ all oranges and orangutans. Are MOOC's credit worthy? Sure, for some definition of credit. But probably more useful as a way of finding people who can do the work so they can be enticed into more intensive opportunities. Are all the credits that traditional universities grant worth anything? Of course not, some of them are just tokens granted in return for tuition while keeping the juvenile delinquents off the streets for a few years. Higher education has always been a multi-objective institution, taking revenues where ever and why ever they were offered, providing value how ever possible. Baby sitting juvenile delinquents has always been part of the bargain. It would probably be more cost effective to put the juvenile delinquents in the Marines, but the Marines are too smart to take them anymore. Can MOOC's keep juvenile delinquents off the streets? Not a chance. Video games appear to work, at least for a while, but no credentials for video gamers, yet. -- rec --
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