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I feel Khan Academy and current MOOCs need to be treated like alchemy or Freud. It's people creating half-baked initial versions of a potentially revolutionary
by halo 13y ago
I feel Khan Academy and current MOOCs need to be treated like alchemy or Freud.
It's people creating half-baked initial versions of a potentially revolutionary idea, even if it may not live up to the hype and never quite deliver on the promise of turning base metals into gold.
- dnautics 13y agoI don't know about freud, but alchemy did eventually turn into chemistry. You have to start somewhere.
- kybernetikos 13y agoI think that's the point he's making: these are early days and what we've got at the moment is likely to be partly or wholly wrong, but it's necessary and pointing in a good direction.
- c2prods 13y agoI agree. At least we should give them credits for making things change.
- psbp 13y agoI'm still convinced that MOOCS are a scheme to keep research dollars in premier western universities.
- bayesianhorse 13y agoEverything premier western universities do is a scheme to get more research dollars. Not sure if that is a bad thing though.
- psbp 13y agoIt's not about volume, but concentration. We can't have adversarial countries attracting or retaining any talent, or at least a paying student body to utilize that talent.
- bachback 13y agoas of today Khanacademy had 294,329,180 views on youtube. I think that is a little more than a "half-baked initial version".