Technologies make class alive and make communications easy.

I think there are pros and cons. It was not that bad for me studying in French architecture school (tuition is free, but still need to pay comprehensive fee), but I heard that the tax in France is almost 50% of the income. I was satisfied with the quality of learning, but the school facility was not that good as american schools. Also, student support service is not well developed compared to the US institutions.

I’m glad that you openly blogged about this because too many students think that they are the only ones that feel this way! Grad students in general are plagued with self-doubt, which is closely related to the idea of the imposter syndrome.

I don’t think MOOC can replace actual university system, neither. Because obtaining knowledge is not the sole goal of attending university. I think building network and social activities are the other goals that we cannot achieve with MOOC.

Exactly, and it’s not just the cost, but the cultural disenfranchisement as well.

I like this post! With the point about students not expecting to pay, I wonder what it would look like when some of these ventures try to monetize their efforts. It seems like a lot might hinge on the funding that supports these purveyors…

This is an interesting notion if extrapolated to a larger scale. It kinda sounds like you could envision the scenario in which there actually is no current because all of the streams and counter streams end up negating each other and rendering a state of inertia. I suppose in one sense that would make swimming easier, though, if keeping with the metaphor.

I would suggest that land grant universities were seen as a public good when they were first established in 1862. The purpose of their establishment was to give students a chance at achieving the same training as those attending a private university. The thought was that America would benefit from a technically advanced workforce.

This was an interesting post! Did the HBR article define critical thinking or what it meant for a conversation to be “smarter”?

It doesn’t need to remain broken, but, alas, I fear it will. The economy has been driving higher education and politics for too long at this point. we’d need a radical shift for change to occur.