Re: [silk] MOOCs, Thrun, Udacity

2013-11-18 Thread Dave Long
The internet for me is a large library, and that's really all I need. So the idea of a digital classroom doesn't excite me as much as most people. I also fail to see how the stated problem is more than a strawman. If education were really the goal, given the stated 7% completion rate

Re: [silk] MOOCs, Thrun, Udacity

2013-11-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote: The idea of an online classroom that controls the direction and speed of thinking in a medium that can break free of such constraints befuddles me. I vastly prefer reading a text book at my own pace, jumping across