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Internet Access Is Only Prerequisite For Many Colleges Now

washingtonpost.com — Berkeley's on YouTube. American University's hoping to get on iTunes. George Mason professors have created an online research tool, a virtual filing cabinet for scholars. And with a few clicks on Yale's Web site, anyone can watch one of the school's most popular philosophy professors sitting cross-legged on his desk, talking about death.

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  • tallonx, on 12/31/2007, -15/+7Dugg down for their use of IE 6.0 >: O ( But not really :D I dug it up because it's an interesting read)
    • nallelcm, on 12/31/2007, -2/+11I dugg you up (but not really, I dugg you down because it was a lame comment)
  • MikeonTV, on 12/31/2007, -3/+19I graduated last year and my profs were using youtube in lectures and posting tests online ONLY!
    • jgzman, on 12/31/2007, -0/+8I hate it when professors do that. For the amount I'm paying to attend, you can bloody well give me a real lecture, and a real test.
      My EF class did homework online, and they managed to do it in a way thay worked pretty well, but I usually don't like such things.
    • sgtpppr, on 01/01/2008, -0/+1Hopefully, you weren't attending university of phoenix online.
    • JayD16, on 01/01/2008, -0/+1Nothings changed. In big classes you could have always sat in and listened to the lecture. Its not like you can get a degree by watching lectures. You're paying to jump through hoops for a piece of paper.
  • splash, on 12/31/2007, -5/+5Where is this Yale professor video?
  • KenSPT, on 12/31/2007, -2/+28What happened to the good old days? When I was in college the internet was used for the real important things, like downloading porn and swiping music from the other folks on the network.
    • kuzotz, on 12/31/2007, -0/+3colleges now sell you out if you do those things.
    • oldhick, on 12/31/2007, -0/+2Back when I was in college we had to install Winsock just to get TCP/IP and we used Gopher to download pictures of Kathy Ireland in swimsuits. Things are much better now.
      • williamdyer, on 12/31/2007, -0/+1We toggled in the boot load code on a PDP 10 for our own homebrew operating system. BUt it was worth it: There were HUNDREDS of people on the Internet.
  • jamesb0i, on 12/31/2007, -7/+7Even though I hate going to class, I would prefer walking across my huge campus to listen than to stay cooped up in my dorm staring at a screen
    fresh air is good
    • sully213, on 12/31/2007, -7/+5So is English 101. You might want to take it next semester. Run-on sentences are not so good.
      • kuzotz, on 12/31/2007, -2/+2There is a comma there. He hasn't broken any rules because if he had used a period then he would have fragmented the sentence.
  • Tangeuray, on 12/31/2007, -1/+5The Price needs to come down now!!!!!!!!!
    • salinemist, on 12/31/2007, -1/+4Higher education prices will crash soon - just like the housing market tuition prices are being driven up not by quality of education but by low interest rates.
    • salinemist, on 12/31/2007, -0/+2http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/10/tui ...
    • williamdyer, on 12/31/2007, -0/+3Top schools have such large endowments they don't need to charge tuition. Some schools like Olin are completely tuition-free. No legacies, nothing but the top students.
  • nurall, on 12/31/2007, -5/+3ill sue. for discrimination.
    i cant get Internet at home.
    • yournamehere, on 12/31/2007, -0/+1what about wifi.. you can't get wifi anywhere around?
      • nurall, on 12/31/2007, -1/+2nope. i live in a poor area of the country that no one wants to provide service for.
        • kuzotz, on 12/31/2007, -1/+2Dude I live in Oklahoma, and we get Cox Cable internet services.
      • nurall, on 12/31/2007, -1/+1I'm at the closest wifi i can get ,a burger king about 20mins away in a neighboring city
    • shredswithpiks, on 12/31/2007, -0/+1dugg you down because you can always do dial up XD
      • Tangeuray, on 12/31/2007, -0/+1Not near as effective as broadband for watching streaming lectures
    • mindovermat, on 12/31/2007, -0/+1i'll sue you for threating to sue
  • maskedm564, on 12/31/2007, -1/+14"At a time when many top schools are expensive and difficult to get into, some say it's a return to the broader mission of higher education: to offer knowledge to everyone."
    And that's exactly how it should be. I'll be viewing as many of these videos as I can.
  • Loyaleagle, on 12/31/2007, -3/+2All I can say is that GMU's name was mentioned and I'm excited!

    Go Mason Go!!!
    • PSWii60Gamer, on 12/31/2007, -2/+1That's the only reason this caught my eye too. Go Mason Go !!!
  • DeadPanDan, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4I'd love to see more lectures for mathematics, science, and engineering available. MIT's open courseware is nice, but doesn't have much video. Too often my class lectures end up being descriptions of the assignments instead of explanations the concepts we should be getting from them, and learning from the text is a bear.
  • flair1, on 12/31/2007, -1/+1actually for many colleges the only thing required is the willingness to pay them huge sums of money.
    • Jonjonr6, on 12/31/2007, -0/+0Ahh, so you're suggesting that:
      The education is free. Its the degree that costs you.
  • spencore, on 12/31/2007, -0/+1Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us - http://youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
    his is made by an anthropology professor at Kansas State University. It reached number 1 on youtube.
  • gta3mobster, on 12/31/2007, -0/+6There are many options for getting a degree without having to fork out all the cash.

    http://online.uwc.edu/index.asp Here in WI that's a school completely online - You're able to get an associates degree. If you sign a contract with UW-Madison/Whitewater/etc before getting 30 credits, if you maintain a 2.6 GPA you get guaranteed admission to the university. Pile on some AP/CLEP credit (Calc BC/Physics B are 10 credits each) and you're almost done with the first year without having to go... Would be a good opportunity to work/pay for almost all of school as you go.
  • technoticau, on 12/31/2007, -0/+3Set the education free!
  • diggitizer, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5Extra extra! The Web, developed to aid learning and researching sharing, is being used by academic institutions 19 years after the first proposal http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html

  • heloo, on 12/31/2007, -3/+3This is a major step towards bringing peace to the world.
  • Noonish, on 12/31/2007, -2/+0I'm be a bit more accepting of the post-secondary industry now that I know at least some of them are providing online content. Isn't that the kind of world we all want to live in? Higher education is taking the high road and doing something good for everyone and not being profit hungry st4rf**kers. Entertainment industry I'm looking in your direction.
  • enri, on 12/31/2007, -0/+1Information wants to be free.
  • SevenC, on 12/31/2007, -0/+2The cost of education should be falling rather than growing faster than inflation!

    There's still a need to pay teachers and professors well, but there's no reason that education cost should be growing faster than inflation. The use of the internet should be able to reduce cost and provide for a better learning environment. We should demand this!
  • rsdelacruz, on 12/31/2007, -0/+0Making university lectures accessible at no cost is quite a treasure to those people, who for one reason or another, just want to obtain the knowledge for the pure love of learning. For tuition-paying students and families, it's not the same as trekking out to the lecture hall for an hour or two. Still I'd like to think of this capability as greatly benefitting those people who, because of heatlh or physical limitations, cannot make it personally to lecture halls.
  • hierophantus, on 12/31/2007, -0/+1If you're interested in early 20th-Century poetry, I can recommend Langdon Hammer's lectures at Yale's site: http://open.yale.edu/courses/english/modern_poetry ... . I watched one on Wallace Stevens (one of my favorite poets), and it was lucid and rewarding.
  • Singularitarian, on 12/31/2007, -0/+2"He wondered whether he would teach differently, inhibited by the camera. He imagined careless comments being immortalized forever or random snippets winding up who knows where."
    I suspect this is the real reason a lot of places like UCLA aren't contributing many online lectures yet. The solution--and this is important--is that both professors and students should be allowed to edit the videos before they are posted online, to remove any embarrassing stuff that happened.
    It's inefficient for thousands of mediocre professors to be giving the same lectures again and again, year after year, at thousands of places across the world. It would be much more efficient for the best lecturers to give the lectures once, and for everyone to watch them on video. For students, it is invaluable to be able to pause and rewind during a lecture, to think about difficult points and avoid getting lost. What a waste if a good lecture isn't recorded--if only you had recorded it, thousand of people across the world and through the years could have learned from it.
    There needs to be a system--probably involving some combination of payment and crowdsourcing--for random people to get homework assignments checked and corrected.
  • ytsrc, on 01/01/2008, -1/+0eric y and jay whitlow are planning an instructional on-line video of next year's wheat harvest in kansas sign up now or be left out
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