03-24-2015, 04:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-24-2015, 05:00 AM by JohnBear.
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'The guy does go on (and on and on) about the amount of work he did, and presents hundreds of pages of examples. He may well have learned a lot. Good for him. But would any of the 15,000-or-so recognized universities out there hand him a BA for that? I think not since, among other reasons, he did not demonstrate his knowledge by taking a single exam. The MOOC is an interesting phenomenon. I wouldn\'t bet on its survival (but I believe I wrote that about ARPANET in 1974, as well). More than a few schools that have tried MOOCS have given up, including a major test at San Jose State University. Here's the NY Times article on what they called this "flop": http://tinyurl.com/ll86geu. But MOOCS do offer an opportunity for people who want to learn, and don't need a degree, to get a lot of free information . . . just like, dare I say, the public library.'