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the first nobel prize winner graduate of edX will change everything. i sometimes think, should online universities also be strictly selective?
by diminish 15y ago
the first nobel prize winner graduate of edX will change everything. i sometimes think, should online universities also be strictly selective?
- UK-AL 15y agoWhy? Selective education is used in order to focus limited resources on certain people. That isn't really problem online, unless you want to be an ass and restrict people's abillity to improve themselves for no reason. That's why it's so scary for universities and elites. One of the moral validations for restricting the life chances of certain groups of people has been removed. Others will pop up I'm sure.
- grayed_comments 15y agoIsn't most of the "prestige" of a nobel prize winner normally directed at the university at which they were conducting research (assuming it is an academic heavy field) at the time?
- Turing_Machine 15y agoIn my experience, every institution that has any connection whatsoever to the Nobel Laureate claims him or her. Undergrad, graduate school, research location, even high school (one local high school claims multiple Nobel Laureates -- unusual, but I don't know if it's unique).