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In reply to the discussion: Free College Courses Online! [View all]lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)54. Much like Napster was a threat to record companies?
Education is valuable for it's own sake, I'm unsympathetic to those who profit from dispensing it.
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that's not what this is about, though. these courses *will* be offered for credit, and it looks
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#6
No, I am saying that these classes are going to be offered for credit at a price, and that colleges
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#27
uh, yeah, that's what they say. but the capitalists play a long game, and the public is too naive
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#8
for the time being. but soon to become otherwise. a trojan horse for education deform is what it is,
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#17
You too can play long game. Educate yourself for free & that is worth more than any piece of paper
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2013
#14
I have educated myself all my life, and I didn't need some loss leader from education deformers
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#16
to correctly identify your previous post, and this latest one, as both condscending and diversionary
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#24
Not a personal attack. I was characterizing your post as "angry". No need to be so defensive.
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2013
#39
i'm not defensive at all. you wrote "ah, *you* have chosen angry." your words.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#46
You can't win, or rather, one can't win or maybe I can't win. When I wrote "you"
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2013
#47
So you would tell a hungry begger to not take the sandwich because he would
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#53
the hungry beggar being -- what? people who want to take free online courses? yeah, that's
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#61
it wouldn't matter if this were actually some 'free' recordings of university lectures. but that's
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#25
it's not the professors getting most of that cash, but the textbook corporations. the ones who
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#26
Informing people is never a losing battle. Those who don't get it mainly don't wish to get it.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#30
but that didn't use to be the attitude. that attitude i attribute to two things; relentless
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#41
i think the banksters, the lack of real recovery and the assault on things like social security
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#45
Nonsense. Free online college courses have been available for years. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2013
#48
those who profit from it are the for-profit corporations pushing education deform.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#59
Yes, the medieval model of the university is an ox that will probably be gored in the next decades
Recursion
Feb 2013
#56
don't kid yourself. the university will survive; there will just be fewer of them, and mostly
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#60
I'm doing the Health for All course right now, along with a film course and intro to philosophy
Bolo Boffin
Feb 2013
#9
There is also the "Open Courseware Consortium", where you can take classes from MIT...
Ghost in the Machine
Feb 2013
#34