Online Courses and the $100 Graduate Degree

First time accepted submitter GCA10 writes "Forbes reports on the latest project of Google Fellow Sebastian Thrun (the proponent of self-driving cars.) He's moved on to education now, believing that conventional university teaching is way too costly, inefficient and ineffective to survive for long. So he started Udacity, which aims to deliver an online version of a master's degree for $100 per student. From the article: 'Udacity’s earliest course offerings have been free, and although Thrun eventually plans to charge something, he wants his tuition schedule to be shockingly low. Getting a master’s degree might cost just $100. After teaching his own artificial intelligence class at Stanford last year—and attracting 160,000 online signups—Thrun believes online formats can be far more effective than traditional classroom lectures. “So many people can be helped right now,” Thrun declares. “I see this as a mission.”'"

That's UnAmerican!

[thatDBA]

Everybody knows you can't get a quality education for cheap! This is the land of the Private University that offers freedom by enslaving you in debt.

MOD PARENT UP AS...

[rueger]

... I'm not sure. Insightful? Funny? Guess it depends on how you view it...

College movies of the future

[thereitis]

No serorities, frat parties, or jocks. Just a guy sitting in front of his computer in his underwear filling out quizzes. The plot will center around the reliability of his Internet connection and the pesky neighbours who keep knocking at his door.

Re:and why should I have to pay $$$ for humanities

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe if you took more of those gen ed classes, you would have learned to compose a sentence without any missing words.