Yale,
Harvard, MIT, and other big name institutes of higher learning are now
putting some if not all of their college courses online for FREE.
Amazing.
Not to be political, but do we really
need a big push for government-backed college loans? Especially when
that debt burden alone is almost $100 Billion?
Feels like Pell grants should shift to Dell grants -- along with free Wi-Fi for the nation.
Partisan
for the artisan comments aside, it's thrills us to know all one needs
is a healthy internet connection to tap into the biggest brains that are
teaching the biggest brains on the planet.
The implications are pretty huge:
• knowledge is now even more democratized than ever
• there are no place-based boundaries even to higher ed
• there's hope that continued unleashing of knowledge will raise humanity up higher, Guttenberg-revolution style
Of
course, motivation, wisdom, and the ability to apply learnings are what
make the difference between productive intelligence and well-read
sloths.
Plus, these classes are basically online audits. There is no credit, or diploma given.
But
given Zuckerberg, Gates, and other notable billionaire innovators
dropped out of Harvard and the like, maybe higher ed is really about
learning that you were smart enough on your own to begin with -- and
that sheepskin ain't all that it's worth.
That said, we'd say FREE is worth a lot -- coupled with a motivation to succeed.
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