UT System to Forge Partnership with EdX
Updated, 12:30 pm: As expected the University of Texas System Board of Regents unanimously approved a new systemwide partnership with edX, a provider of massive open online courses, on Monday.
In a press conference afterward, system leaders said that they had committed to contributing one course by summer 2013 and four by fall 2013. Gene Powell, chairman of the board of regents, said that if the system developed more than four courses that could meet their standards, they would not be limited in how many they can offer.
The system will invest $5 million in edX, which UT System ...
Comments (3)
Leon Drozd
Fast food. Fast education. Next thing you know we'll have people with fat heads who know little and what little they know isn't enough to enable them to connect the dots to anything meaningful --- except perhaps some view on religion. They will be well trained in convincing others that they know something or what they are doing, yet their little amount of knowledge will be dangerous. Better put in some robust testing before an educated human being who can evaluate these doofuses.
I always had tremendous respect for education and educators in Texas. I've told many folks that one thing Texans know how to do well is educate young people. In my view, you need to get those kids away from their adoring parents and into classrooms where they can find out who they are and learn about life along with reading, writing and arithmetic. Someone needs the guts to tell parents and children alike to get off their lazy derriers and get away from the darn computer. AND, on that note, have a great day! :-) .
Christina Jonsson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Here we go eliminating professors for mass capitalist education. Privitazation of public education cheats the students, teachers, parents, and taxpayers, not to mention employers and innovation. Creativity and questions get squelched.
Stuart Greenfield
Having successfully completed a course at Coursera, http://www.sgreenfield.net/coursera/soa.pdf , so I have a bias. I had hoped that UT would have selected Coursera, as it appears that more Ivy League schools will be participating through Coursera. After last weekends game w/ OU, might UT have split from the Big 12 and joined their fellow Ivy League Coursera universities to create a new academic/athletic conference. This conference would be a win-win. Academics at UT could proclaim they are now w/ Ivy League schools, while the football team would go undefeated, untied, and unscored upon.
My kidding aside, both edX and Coursera offer old folks like me the opportunity to obtain contemporary knowledge at a most reasonable cost. Many will benefit from having this access, so Hook'em Ivy.