Most of us do. The new things we learnt, the canteen faff, the notes in class, the total irresponsibility of blowing up all your pocket money...
Coursera offers a partial reliving -- the learning part only. I am taking this course now and find that the teachers have to be far more painstaking than in a real classroom, at least the ones I have attended.
It's also a shortcut to make sure you get the latest the global learning environment has to offer.
With the growing success and popularity of Mass Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the number of site offering curated courses are growing. I found Coursebuffet and Mooc-list. And Udacity and Edx.
Given how easy it is to enrol, it's no surprise that people do, however, industry watchers are pointing out low completion rates as something that may affect the sector as a whole: in some courses, as little as 2% or enrolled students actually finish the courses. Others are saying universities will simply use the success of the online formula to fire their professors, keeping only superprofessors who will earn for the university it's online as well as offline dollars.
In short, there's cause for excitement. Will keep the blog on my progress.
Coursera offers a partial reliving -- the learning part only. I am taking this course now and find that the teachers have to be far more painstaking than in a real classroom, at least the ones I have attended.
It's also a shortcut to make sure you get the latest the global learning environment has to offer.
With the growing success and popularity of Mass Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the number of site offering curated courses are growing. I found Coursebuffet and Mooc-list. And Udacity and Edx.
Given how easy it is to enrol, it's no surprise that people do, however, industry watchers are pointing out low completion rates as something that may affect the sector as a whole: in some courses, as little as 2% or enrolled students actually finish the courses. Others are saying universities will simply use the success of the online formula to fire their professors, keeping only superprofessors who will earn for the university it's online as well as offline dollars.
But I still think getting free education is a pretty cool thing, especially in these days of 'nothing is free'. If you are asking how the sites make money, it's by tapping into a (very) lucrative employee training market (worth USD 135 bn globally). Udacity already has employee training modules for companies like Google.
One reason why I have largely been uninterested in free online courses is because it's not worth anything in the professional sphere, but LinkedIn is changing that. You can now display your online courses on your LinkedIn profile.
Some very serious things can also happen. This lady from USAID Rwanda is trying to get an online MBA for less than INR 60,000, which is unbelievably cheap even by Indian standards.
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