Comments on: Reputation still holds in education… for how long?

By: Daniel Lemire

Daniel Lemire — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:32:55 +0000

I don’t think professors should be lecturing. By video or otherwise. Period. See my post How University professors ought to be teaching…

But this does not invalidate my point or the point that Cringely is making.

By: Neil Conway

Neil Conway — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:20:06 +0000

In fact, OCW has audio or video for a mere 16 EECS courses available online:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.htm#ElectricalEngineeringandComputerScience

And of those 16, only 5 have video for all the lectures available.

The syllabus, assignments, and lecture notes for many more courses are available on OCW, but that hardly constitutes a replacement for being at MIT.

Of course OCW is a great thing, but suggesting that it is anywhere close to a replacement or substitute for attending class at MIT (or anywhere similar) is pretty laughable, at least given the current state of affairs.

By: Jonathan Katz

Jonathan Katz — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:16:58 +0000

MIT still does not have *all* its courses available. And many of the ones that are listed as “available” on their OCW site only have syllabi on-line (and not video lectures).

By: Harold Jarche

Harold Jarche — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:26:42 +0000

I have discussed with several university graduates and they all say that they would have opted for a cheaper education, had they known what it would be like with so much student debt and only a bachelor’s degree to show for it.