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15. Please understand that there is a difference

Mon May 20, 2013, 04:40 PM

May 2013

between standard "online" education and MOOCs. Your daughter most likely did not take courses with thousands of other students at the same time. She most likely was required to submit work for assessment and had a qualified individual assessing that work. If she did group work she did not choose her group from thousands of other students, some of whom were qualified to take a graduate level course and others who just signed up for chuckles . . . I could go on, but I think you get the idea.

There is a massive difference between what she did and what Udacity and Georgia Tech are proposing.

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Georgia Tech, Udacity Shock Higher Education With $7,000 Masters Degree [View all] cbdo2007 May 2013 OP

Well, it's time something was done about the ridiculously high prices of education Yo_Mama May 2013 #1

That already seems to be the way it is now. Arugula Latte May 2013 #3

"employers are waiting for such graduates with good paying jobs." ForgoTheConsequence May 2013 #2

Now the H1B applicants can have a MS from Georgia Tech..... formercia May 2013 #4

A lot of Indians have MS degrees from Georgia Tech. Buzz Clik May 2013 #5

Rivard's article does not categorize this as "revolutionary" enlightenment May 2013 #6

Is Georgia tech a diploma mill? n-t Logical May 2013 #11

No. enlightenment May 2013 #14

And they will get hired by MattBaggins May 2013 #7

So much for the value of Masters degrees jmowreader May 2013 #8

I think at times classrooms in college are a waste of time! n-t Logical May 2013 #12

it's not revolutionary, it's education deform. HiPointDem May 2013 #9

Now that's some Udacity audacity! Orrex May 2013 #10

My daughter just earned her master's degree from an online college RebelOne May 2013 #13

Please understand that there is a difference enlightenment May 2013 #15

At what school NiteOwll May 2013 #16