Re: Progress...

On 07/26/13 4:48 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> "As with other inventions that produced an inferior product at a much
> lower price, from the printing press to the steam-driven loom to
> Wikipedia, what happens now is largely in the hands of the people
> experimenting with the new tools, rather than defending themselves from
> them."
>
> http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/07/08/moocs-and-economic-reality/
>
> Fred

The institutions are slow to recognize this apocalypse, among them 
Wikipedia's institutional arm. Students and prospective students are 
only beginning to appreciate that the costs of education do not 
correlate with their personal economic prospects. Employers maintain 
illusions about the value of credentialization, as though it would 
absolve them from establishing their own training programs.

Ray

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