raghu wrote: > All of this is true, but beneath all this hype there is some substance > which I think really is interesting and potentially revolutionary. The > Harvard/MIT EdX initiative really is exciting. Already the open > courseware initiatives of various institutions have created a treasure > trove of very high quality educational content, which really has the > potential to benefit the whole world.
I'd bet that when the dust settles, the whole thing still requires in-person help from professors or some other kind of mentor. Of course, the high-price tenure-track type will likely be replaced by adjuncts. > We can only hope that some idiot Goldman Sachs partner does not ruin > it all with some hare-brained "business plan". chances are that one of them will. Finance rules and Goldman rules finance! -- Jim Devine / "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
