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I regret wasting my time reading this long and rambling mess... The author apparently didn't even bother to take a single MOOC class. Instead only acknowledgin
by spikels 14y ago
I regret wasting my time reading this long and rambling mess...
The author apparently didn't even bother to take a single MOOC class. Instead only acknowledging watching 9 minutes of a single 18 minute video (the class has 13 in total) for Kahn Acadamy's US History class. Strange considering we are talking about college and this Kahn class targets middle or high school students.
The author is also apparently unfamiliar with many of the basic features, such as discussion forums, or major advantages, such as timing flexibility (learn when you can for as long as you can) of MOOCs. Or that many of the students are not even in the US.
However there is a link to an interesting blog post previously posted to HN "Napster, Udacity, and the Academy" which makes the software is eating the world argument for education.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4773857 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4773857