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Institutions like this are profitable because of the status quo. Recorded lectures and remote learning threaten them to a great degree and they might not be abl

by swiley 5y ago

Institutions like this are profitable because of the status quo. Recorded lectures and remote learning threaten them to a great degree and they might not be able to afford all those overpaid administrators. Go ahead and try to find Stanford CS lectures on the internet that aren't the annual Christmas ones.

Hydraulix989 5y ago
If business was the main motivator, why would restaurants be operating any differently?
- swiley 5y ago
  Restaurants don't hold lectures? You're going to have to rephrase what you're saying.
musicale 5y ago
Stanford actually makes money from paid online courses offered through its Center for Professional Development, so that might be a reason why free lecture videos are harder to find. However, besides the paid offerings, there still seem to be a number of free Stanford courses offered online via edX and listed at online.stanford.edu, and several lecture sequences are still available on youtube (intro CS sequence, AI, algorithms...) Several course web sites offer their written materials online as well (e.g. cs107e.github.io). Neither paid nor free online courses are a threat to Stanford's (or any major research university's) business model of selling expensive education and credentials to students and their parents, and expensive (though cheap and very underpaid relative to industry) research to the government, or to other lucrative "university" businesses such as professional sports, medical services, property ownership of retail and industrial parks, etc..
- swiley 5y ago
  Can you get a degree from them online though?
ajsnigrutin 5y ago
Let's be honest here... there are a lot of better lectures and books than college gives you available online, and with some piracy, even free. Colleges now give you three things: - access to college stuff, from professors to machines, labs, etc - access to peers (networking) - valid diploma that you can use to find jobs.

by swiley 5y ago

Hydraulix989 5y ago

If business was the main motivator, why would restaurants be operating any differently?

swiley 5y ago
Restaurants don't hold lectures? You're going to have to rephrase what you're saying.

musicale 5y ago

Stanford actually makes money from paid online courses offered through its Center for Professional Development, so that might be a reason why free lecture videos are harder to find. However, besides the paid offerings, there still seem to be a number of free Stanford courses offered online via edX and listed at online.stanford.edu, and several lecture sequences are still available on youtube (intro CS sequence, AI, algorithms...) Several course web sites offer their written materials online as well (e.g. cs107e.github.io). Neither paid nor free online courses are a threat to Stanford's (or any major research university's) business model of selling expensive education and credentials to students and their parents, and expensive (though cheap and very underpaid relative to industry) research to the government, or to other lucrative "university" businesses such as professional sports, medical services, property ownership of retail and industrial parks, etc..

swiley 5y ago
Can you get a degree from them online though?

ajsnigrutin 5y ago

Let's be honest here... there are a lot of better lectures and books than college gives you available online, and with some piracy, even free. Colleges now give you three things: - access to college stuff, from professors to machines, labs, etc - access to peers (networking) - valid diploma that you can use to find jobs.