tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post2071435340429831834..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: How Western Governors University Will End the Insanity at American Colleges...Sort OfCaptain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-24170349704611407912018-01-23T11:04:36.528-08:002018-01-23T11:04:36.528-08:00Wow, you laid it out there. The bit about college...Wow, you laid it out there. The bit about college as the escape from K-12 prison is a brilliant insight.<br /><br />I'm sharing this one.DrTorchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-14181556384369672992018-01-22T13:23:58.940-08:002018-01-22T13:23:58.940-08:00FYI, Cappy, I've now got my wife looking at an...FYI, Cappy, I've now got my wife looking at an online full stack web developer bootcamp that just became accredited through a state university. You graduate with a certification and 15 credit hours towards an actual degree!<br /><br />https://bottega.tech/<br /><br />If all goes well for her, I may go through it myself.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04333577934420526059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-35814134865160645272018-01-20T06:07:26.330-08:002018-01-20T06:07:26.330-08:00"...nearly everyone in higher education would..."...nearly everyone in higher education would lose their jobs and have to go find real ones in the real world instead of teaching."<br /><br />RealTalk. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1895938670658167852018-01-10T09:21:16.704-08:002018-01-10T09:21:16.704-08:00Hi again, Cap'n: Just a few days after my pos...Hi again, Cap'n: Just a few days after my post (#1) this turns up: PC in graduate on line studies rears its head. https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/01/entire-class-at-columbia-punished-for-microaggressive-comments/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le·gal+In·sur·rec·tion%29Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-29720366267323823172018-01-09T18:31:16.751-08:002018-01-09T18:31:16.751-08:00Most of the research even done in STEM is mostly w...Most of the research even done in STEM is mostly worthless crap. I worked in such a place, and while a good science project for students, most of it is nothing new or innovative. Innovations may occur at a dozen or so universities. This is evidenced by the thousands of engineering journals that no one reads or has time to even it were worth anything. <br /><br />Universities are minting too many PHd's even in STEM and MBA's. <br /><br />The lab work is important, but I imagine the market can work a way around that to. Not like electronic and other stuff is really that expensive anymore. A Texannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-19849908701838135982018-01-09T14:23:14.926-08:002018-01-09T14:23:14.926-08:00Actually, on-line courses do not even use lectures...Actually, on-line courses do not even use lectures or seminars. They all use on-line reading and you tend to write a lot of articles and papers. On-line discussion via comments is also used.<br /><br />/r<br />CliffAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07092883988950554255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-36933274067166995592018-01-09T14:21:54.595-08:002018-01-09T14:21:54.595-08:00Actually, on-line courses do not even use lectures...Actually, on-line courses do not even use lectures or seminars. They all use on-line reading and you tend to write a lot of articles and papers. On-line discussion via comments is also used.<br /><br />/r<br />CliffAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07092883988950554255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-13035067637753265722018-01-09T14:16:32.456-08:002018-01-09T14:16:32.456-08:00Fart sucker? You mean like yourself..
Fart sucker? You mean like yourself..<br />Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-78569686362765590952018-01-09T10:14:03.909-08:002018-01-09T10:14:03.909-08:00Hi Cappy
A few years ago I looked at the London E...Hi Cappy<br /><br />A few years ago I looked at the London External programmes - https://london.ac.uk/. Degrees cost about £5-6k (up a lot from a couple of years ago which is a pity). Properly certified from respectable universities on the whole.<br /><br />I think this could be a way forward. An institution provides an exam programme with proper controls over testing and robustness then allows students to study as they wish. There are some independent schools which provide teaching, some self study. I was looking at philosophy courses and found independent tutors offering decent rates for marking essays and one to one tuition either on line or in person. <br /><br />As noted above these work better for maths/ arts subjects where no labs are required - but those are the students paying the most for lower financial reward.<br /><br />Jay Ritchiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735075977508177850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-11006113520067119452018-01-09T09:41:37.656-08:002018-01-09T09:41:37.656-08:00Fortunately, online education is evolving just as ...Fortunately, online education is evolving just as film did as it progressed from simply filming a stage play to using the moveable camera to create a more intimate audience experience. Most online courses have been filmed lectures. Hardly an improvement, except in being able to rewind when your mind wander. <br /><br />Recently, I came across a Youtube channel (Jim Pytel) of a guy who is systematically presenting the lectures for an electrical industrial technician type course. Everything except the lab. His catch phrase being "Think how well lab will go when you know what you are doing". Pytel has adopted the onscreen "blackboard" and the off-screen narrater like Khan Academy. Very effective. His channel is apparently supported by an NSF grant. This is the future of online learning. The vocational nature of the subject does leave the in-person lab work with equipment for the brick and mortar. <br /><br /><br />The universities are reverting to their Medieval purpose as described in this contrast between the old university and the increasingly rare Scottish type. Remember, the Scottish universities produced a good portion of the Industrial Revolution and luminaries such as Adam Smith. <br /><br />"The medieval university differed in many respects with our idea of a modern university. It was primarily a guild of teachers and scholars, formed for common protection and mutual aid. It was a republic of letters, whose members were exempt from all services private and public, all personal taxes and contributions, and from all civil procedure in courts of law. The teaching function was secondary, and often entirely overlooked. The Scottish university from the beginning, however, emphasized the teaching function, and created an atmosphere academic rather than civil or political." <br /><br />The Scottish university, John Grier Hibben, 'Scribner's Magazine', 1901JK Brownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-71585324225256846482018-01-08T16:05:11.796-08:002018-01-08T16:05:11.796-08:00Not so.
Lot of STEM course work is in the lab. Th...Not so.<br /><br />Lot of STEM course work is in the lab. There is also the fact that universities have a huge role in R&D. Look - I hate the liberal arts fart suckers as much as the next guy... but some things cannot be taught over the internet. And though I hated it at the time... nowadays I look back with fondness for the days I spent in the class, or after hours cramming and sweating the exams and midterms. A proper university offering real programs still has a place.Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-75692287038328925362018-01-08T14:20:57.183-08:002018-01-08T14:20:57.183-08:00Accreditation itself is a huge scam. You know who ...Accreditation itself is a huge scam. You know who are the best people to determine academic merits and standards? Bureaucrats, people who flunked out of life so hard they couldn't even get into academia. <br /><br />And of course everyone knows that government agencies never have conflicts of interest and never take bribe money from lobby groups...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-17931061661295583902018-01-08T13:40:14.337-08:002018-01-08T13:40:14.337-08:00Google: math teacher makes millions
Korean online...Google: math teacher makes millions<br /><br />Korean online teacher makes 8 million USD in one year <br /> https://www.allkpop.com/buzz/2015/01/korean-online-teacher-makes-8-million-usd-in-one-year<br /><br />South Korean Tutor Makes $4 Million A Year. Can You?<br />https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2013/08/11/south-korean-tutor-makes-4-million-a-year-can-you/#42861d3c697c<br />Andrew_M_Garlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02855052302054611917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-72579478308095272042018-01-08T12:44:15.209-08:002018-01-08T12:44:15.209-08:00Let us pay our respects the medical students and e...Let us pay our respects the medical students and engineers who will be forced into physical colleges due to the hands-on natures of their degrees. Although, tbh, the med students do most of their practicals in hospitals anyhow.Kraemerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701426814628008219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-68394035196844231792018-01-08T10:49:23.066-08:002018-01-08T10:49:23.066-08:00Hi, Cap'n: I hope that in the massive bandwid...Hi, Cap'n: I hope that in the massive bandwidth of data coming your way, you can point it out when the online campuses start to get affected by political correctness. I withdrew from a U of MD online graduate program for a variety of reasons, but one of those reasons was because of PC-stuff*. Will likely be attempting another run with Capella but just for a graduate certificate. My experience with three online outfits now investigating what to do next reveals it very difficult to get straight answers about academic freedom, etc.<br /><br />*in my experience with U of MD, an assignment for a "Diversity in Management" class or some such was to write a puff piece about the CEO of Yahoo - this would be the one who fired male engineers so she could replace them with female non-engineers, and who presided over the value of the company crashing after it was hacked. We literally were assigned to write on how well she did compared to those men she replaced as CEO, who gave her such a crummy situation to fix. The teacher literally was confused on the week the class started as to whether it was an online-only class or a "mixed" on-line physical presence class. The mind boggles as to how that promotion came about .....the teacher name was not even on the official roster of instructors for U of MD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com