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Friday, March 12, 2010
Online Learning: Who needs a prof? - Stephanie Findlay, MacLeans on Campus
Students turn to their laptops for free online courses from Ivy League scholars. Last year, I was obliged to take a course as part of my undergraduate political science degree. It was described as political game theory. I needed to make it through the course, so I did what many others have done: I turned to the Internet. There, on a site called Academic Earth, I learned everything I was later tested on from Benjamin Polak, a professor of economics teaching at Yale, whose full course on game theory was videotaped and posted online, complete with worksheets and exams. I used only Polak’s material for all my assignments and exams. And so I wondered: why was I paying for this class when I got a better education online and for free?
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