This site just amazes me. Both the quality of the content and the quality of the UX design are exceptional.
From the ability build playlists of courses to providing a citation for the video with 1-click to the "dim the lights" feature...this is so well done.
I am working my way through the course on Game Theory. I watch the lectures, can grab the syllabus and do the reading if I choose and I can even look at past exams and solutions to past exams. The class video also includes the questions from the students and the professor's answers.
So I am just wondering; does this raise deeper questions about the value of a university education? Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE universities, I love campuses and student unions and libraries and so on...some of my fav places in the world really - BUT - do we need to be a bit more honest about why students are paying to go there when all of this content/interaction is available? I mean if we extrapolate and see a day when all of a college's content is online like this...what the are you paying for with tuition? Student-to-student interaction? Teacher-to-student interaction? That's a shift isn't it? Then we're selling interactions and not content...and we can now engineer interactions in a whole myriad of ways...
I am working my way through the course on Game Theory. I watch the lectures, can grab the syllabus and do the reading if I choose and I can even look at past exams and solutions to past exams. The class video also includes the questions from the students and the professor's answers.
So I am just wondering; does this raise deeper questions about the value of a university education? Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE universities, I love campuses and student unions and libraries and so on...some of my fav places in the world really - BUT - do we need to be a bit more honest about why students are paying to go there when all of this content/interaction is available? I mean if we extrapolate and see a day when all of a college's content is online like this...what the are you paying for with tuition? Student-to-student interaction? Teacher-to-student interaction? That's a shift isn't it? Then we're selling interactions and not content...and we can now engineer interactions in a whole myriad of ways...
thx for posting this...great resource:)
Posted by: Kip Yellowjacket | June 14, 2009 at 05:22 AM