by Justin Fritz, the Wall Street Daily
The online learning landscape is changing at a rapid pace, thanks to new platforms that allow students to take full, quality courses online. Take Apple’s iTunes U, for instance. Then there are websites like Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare and Coursera. Similar to iTunes U, these websites offer courses ranging from Introduction to French and Developmental Psychology, to Computer Graphics and Game Theory. What’s great about these platforms is that you’re not learning from someone with zero credibility. In fact, many courses are taught by professors from institutions like Stanford and MIT (in the case of MIT’s OpenCourseWare, all the material is by MIT’s faculty). Not to mention, they’re free. So anyone with an internet connection can take Ivy League-level courses without accumulating massive student loan debt. Which is one reason a Stanford professor is ditching his tenure and starting up an online university of his own.
http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2012/01/27/the-coming-paradigm-shift-in-higher-education/
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