Ten state universities join
with online education provider
Thursday’s announcement of
the new partnerships means that the state schools, from New
York to New Mexico
It is expected to bolster
the so-called blended classroom in which online videotaped lectures from
various online courses are an enrichment tool, like a textbook, in a class that
also has face-to-face teaching and evaluation.
But the emphasis of the new
partnerships is for the universities to bring their own in-state students back
to degree programs, hasten graduation rates and start high school students on
college education early, according to Daphne Koller, one of the two Stanford University professors who founded the
Mountain View-based Coursera last year.
Busting the college
monopoly: Latest Phase
Tea Party Economist – Gary North
– 5/30/2013
The institutions are:
- Tennessee Board of Regents (which oversees other
public campuses in that state),
- University System of
Several University of California
campuses already offer non-credit classes through the for-profit Coursera and
through rival edX, a nonprofit based in Massachusetts Cal State
schools have for-credit courses through edX and Udacity, another for-profit
online provider in Silicon Valley .
A student can get access to courses at the world’s best universities. Then he can take CLEP exams for under $2,000 to quiz out of the first two years. Then he spends $10,000 on the last two years. At 18, he is a college graduate. If he wants great teachers, this costs him nothing.
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