Comments on: Proper Education Needs Stakes http://scottwriteseverything.com/2009/08/17/proper-education-needs-stakes/ Email Marketing | Daddy Blog | Sports Blog Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:49:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Scott Cohen http://scottwriteseverything.com/2009/08/17/proper-education-needs-stakes/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Scott Cohen Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:36:09 +0000 http://scottwriteseverything.com/?p=178#comment-41 Yeah MIT does it. Stanford has something similar. Several schools offer opencourseware that's free. The difference is even if you go through every course on there, they won't award you a degree for your efforts. Perhaps the discussion should really be about redefining what are academic requirements for the various industries. Because that may be the only way that the opencourseware model would truly work beyond "extraneous" professional development IMHO. As long as employees use education level as a means to disqualify job candidates, the degree-granting system is still needed. So do we start the--for lack of a better word--"re-education" with the academic institutions or with the employers themselves? Yeah MIT does it. Stanford has something similar. Several schools offer opencourseware that’s free. The difference is even if you go through every course on there, they won’t award you a degree for your efforts.

Perhaps the discussion should really be about redefining what are academic requirements for the various industries. Because that may be the only way that the opencourseware model would truly work beyond “extraneous” professional development IMHO.

As long as employees use education level as a means to disqualify job candidates, the degree-granting system is still needed. So do we start the–for lack of a better word–”re-education” with the academic institutions or with the employers themselves?

]]> By: Josh Cohen http://scottwriteseverything.com/2009/08/17/proper-education-needs-stakes/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Josh Cohen Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:58:11 +0000 http://scottwriteseverything.com/?p=178#comment-39 Thought you might find this interesting in regards to higher education. The entire MIT courseload is online now. http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north748.html Thought you might find this interesting in regards to higher education. The entire MIT courseload is online now. http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north748.html

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