Comments on: Reputation still holds in education… for how long? http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2008/03/22/reputation-still-holds-in-education-for-how-long/ Computer Scientist and Open Scholar: Databases, Information Retrieval, Business Intelligence. Wed, 23 May 2012 16:42:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Daniel Lemire http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2008/03/22/reputation-still-holds-in-education-for-how-long/comment-page-1/#comment-49802 Daniel Lemire Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:32:55 +0000 http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/22/reputation-still-holds-in-education-for-how-long/#comment-49802 I don't think professors should be lecturing. By video or otherwise. Period. See my post <a href="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2007/12/21/how-university-professors-ought-to-be-teaching/" rel="nofollow">How University professors ought to be teaching…</a> But this does not invalidate my point or the point that Cringely is making. 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 http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2008/03/22/reputation-still-holds-in-education-for-how-long/comment-page-1/#comment-49801 Neil Conway Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:20:06 +0000 http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/22/reputation-still-holds-in-education-for-how-long/#comment-49801 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. 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 http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2008/03/22/reputation-still-holds-in-education-for-how-long/comment-page-1/#comment-49800 Jonathan Katz Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:16:58 +0000 http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/22/reputation-still-holds-in-education-for-how-long/#comment-49800 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). 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 http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2008/03/22/reputation-still-holds-in-education-for-how-long/comment-page-1/#comment-49799 Harold Jarche Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:26:42 +0000 http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/22/reputation-still-holds-in-education-for-how-long/#comment-49799 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. 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.

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