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FarCenter

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18. Free or low-cost courses are starting to be delivered

Reply to Fumesucker (Reply #15)

Thu May 31, 2012, 03:24 PM

May 2012

Stanford offers more free online classes for the world

Stanford University is introducing five free online classes this month, following a successful pilot last fall that drew more than 350,000 participants around the world.

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Three classes will launch on March 12 – Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Natural Language Processing and Cryptography. Two more, Game Theory and Probabilistic Graphical Models, are scheduled to launch on March 19.

Demand has been strong; total enrollment in the five new classes is nearly 335,000.

Last fall, 356,000 people from 190 countries expressed interest in one or more of the first three classes offered, and approximately 43,000 successfully completed a course. Participants came from as close as Stanford's Palo Alto campus and as far away as Ghana, Peru, Russia and New Zealand.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/march/online-courses-mitchell-030612.html

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College Tuition in 18 years from now: $130K A YEAR private, $41K a year public [View all] Zalatix May 2012 OP

I remember when my youngest was born and they were predicting pnwmom May 2012 #1

goodbye, America, it was nice to have known you renate May 2012 #2

2012 costs for the University of Illinois, a public school, in-state tuition is $30,000. riderinthestorm May 2012 #3

So why does this drop like a stone, especially when student loan debt is such a hot issue on DU? riderinthestorm May 2012 #4

I haven't the foggiest. Perhaps you have a pretty solid point. Zalatix May 2012 #5

There's a solid contingent of DUers who blame the students riderinthestorm May 2012 #6

"they should have simply cashed in their stock portfolios...."? We'll get there in due time. Zalatix May 2012 #8

This one baffles me too. Puzzledtraveller May 2012 #10

Like housing costs. sendero May 2012 #7

We've hit that point several times over with college. The problem is this. Zalatix May 2012 #9

We'll. sendero May 2012 #22

Most higher education will not be done by colleges and universities as we know them FarCenter May 2012 #11

Teach to the test. Hooray. What exactly will people actually LEARN??? Zalatix May 2012 #12

I'm starting to think that open source educational software should be developed.. Fumesucker May 2012 #15

Free or low-cost courses are starting to be delivered FarCenter May 2012 #18

Florida State is working on some low-cost online course content that would make them Gidney N Cloyd May 2012 #19

A lot of it is "value pricing" the credential represented by a degree from college XYZ FarCenter May 2012 #20

The tests ensure that students watched the lectures, did the exercises and studied the materials FarCenter May 2012 #16

In my day, colleges also had projects which encouraged some level of innovation, too. Zalatix May 2012 #17

Once the mind/computer barrier is overcome we'll just access the needed skills electronically.. Fumesucker May 2012 #13

My stomach just dropped for my kids and their future children merbex May 2012 #14

I really believe that my family's next generation will be the first ceile May 2012 #21