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Envisioning a Post-Campus America
- tptacek 15y agoMIT is set to offer a fully-automated certificate-credentialed coursework system called MITx. Therefore, 95% of tenured professors will lose their jobs, universities will cease being research centers, "civil society will have to substitute for the intense friend networks that are built at college", and we'll all use dogs to spot the Terminators. The logic shot through this post is what I would call "Winer-ian". When I pointed out on Twitter the extent to which funding for professors in STEM comes from grants, she said "not talking about STEM". Ok then.
- patio11 15y agoThis assumes you buy into the notion that college transfers actual knowledge/skills rather than just functioning as a signaling mechanism. How do you think employers are going to value Diet MIT degrees? (It totally doesn't matter to this analysis if Diet MIT is in fact a superior education.)
- tptacek 15y agoWell, her hypothesis is, they'll value the real degree more until they realize that the MIT-lite students have a lower cost basis (they are minus ~200k in debt) and therefore always cost less.