e-Education

[monk222]

This week, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology committed $60 million to offer free online courses from both universities. Two Stanford professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, have formed a company, Coursera, which offers interactive courses in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics and engineering. Their partners include Stanford, Michigan, Penn and Princeton. Many other elite universities, including Yale and Carnegie Mellon, are moving aggressively online. President John Hennessy of Stanford summed up the emerging view in an article by Ken Auletta in The New Yorker, “There’s a tsunami coming.”

What happened to the newspaper and magazine business is about to happen to higher education: a rescrambling around the Web.

-- David Brooks at The New York Times

If I were in my twenties today and still fairly new unto the world, I could see myself checking out these new online offerings, but at this point, when I am fairly stale and rotting in the world, I find that my personal reading and book-blogging is more than enough for me, just needing something to amuse myself.

Comments

[city-courtezan.livejournal.com]

I remember checking out some Harvard courses, which were available online three years ago. By the way, it is pretty tough to study without direct communication.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

And how can one have a proper study session without pizza and fellow students??

[city-courtezan.livejournal.com]

and loud discussions and constant arguments with professors ...