Educational Technology

June 22, 2013

Hacking Your Education: The Next Generation of Students

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:34 am

By JOHN FAWCETT, Wired

Earlier this year, I hosted an algorithmic finance Meetup, and I met two students who were enrolled as part-time off-campus students. They were taking the bare minimum number of classes required at the university, at the cheapest price they could, and only “spending” those on requirements for their majors. All of their education and enrichment beyond their requirements was through massive open online courses (MOOCs). MOOCs are free non-degree online courses with open global engagement that have exploded in popularity over the last few months. These two students were choosing to build their own education through outside resources both to save money – they said the cost was way less, even though it would take 6 years instead of 4 to earn a degree – and for the material. According to them, the MOOCs had far more options for advanced material. I was blown away by the steel-trap optimization these two students were applying to their own education.

http://www.wired.com/insights/2013/06/hacking-your-education-the-next-generation-of-students/

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