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How long until credentials get phished and all university material is dumped online for free. One of the rare opportunities where hacking could do good for hum

• vkou 6y ago
  You can already get a world-class education for nearly-free, if you're willing to devote thousands of hours of your time into it. Very few people take advantage of it - because the credential is more important than the knowledge.
  • jb775 6y ago
    I find it's sometimes hard to figure out a quality source of knowledge, and sometimes it's hard to figure out what specifically you need to learn sequentially. For example, when I was learning how to code years back, I literally had no idea what language I should start with. I learned from a top->down approach, but the benefits from a university is they lay it out so you get a bottom->up understanding.
  • dhosek 6y ago
    It's also the structure that a formal class affords that makes it more effective. This is part of the appeal of book clubs (yes, part of it is, for some people, the opportunity to hang out with people and drink wine and eat cheese): some externally imposed structure makes it easier to commit to learning something. Paying for an opportunity also tends to make people more likely to honor their commitment.
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• ladberg 6y ago
  "All university material" is not just in one place ready to be stolen. In most classes I took, all the material was already available for free online (on public sites created by the staff). There isn't really any "hidden" knowledge that you could gain by hacking them.