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A New Approach To Education

Free On-line Classes: Fantasy and Science Fiction?

April 19, 2012 by Tom Grosh IV 3 Comments

http://youtu.be/wgNrVnjvjKo Yesterday, in From Silicon Valley, A New Approach To Education, NPR highlighted the free-online class offerings of  Coursera. If the purpose of Coursera was solely "to bring more classes from elite universities to students around the world for free online," then an ESN Facebook wall recommendation to check-out Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World (and other offerings) would have been plenty. Why? In an idealistic way I agree with Daphne Koller (Stanford), "By … [Read more...] about Free On-line Classes: Fantasy and Science Fiction?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Technology in Higher Ed Tagged With: A New Approach To Education, Coursera, Free On-line class, From Silicon Valley, Haitian Connection Network, NPR, University of the Highlands and Islands, University of the People, Yale

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