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    15 KB MIT Considers Charging For Open Course Ware. Anonymous 09/27/10(Mon)13:13 No.2393617  
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/education/27iht-educBriefs27.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%2be-learn
    ing+-%22walden+university%22&st=nyt
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    http://nyti.ms/cuBP6L

    >The International Herald Tribune reported, "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced that it is considering charging for access to online lectures and class notes, which are currently available free on the Web." Speaking at a time when the university's "endowment has shrunk to $7.6 billion," down from $10.1 billion two years earlier, a university official said that the current setup "may not be the best economic model, so we are now looking seriously at new e-learning opportunities." The Herald Tribune noted, "According to University World News, an online newsletter, putting courses behind a paywall is one of a number of measures designed to deliver $150 million in cuts over the 2009-12 period."

    Well fuck. So much for "open" learning. I was planning on picking up a programming language or learning basics of heat transfer with their resources. Go USA, education for the rich only.
    >> Anonymous 09/27/10(Mon)13:18 No.2393656
    Free access to higher education?

    CAN'T HAVE THAT! CUT FUNDING TO MIT THEY FUCKING COMMUNISTS DON'T THOSE STUPID FUCKING EGGHEADS KNOW SCHOOL IS FOR PROFIT NOT FOR LEARNING
    >> Anonymous 09/27/10(Mon)13:40 No.2393873
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    >>2393617
    >implying you have a right to education

    get a job, hippy faggot
    >> Anonymous 09/27/10(Mon)13:43 No.2393904
    >>2393617
    Ever notice how we NEVER find this stuff out until after they start making changes? Even the online refresher courses I took at a community college required a private log-in.
    >> Anonymous 09/27/10(Mon)13:46 No.2393932
    >>2393873
    >get a soul-sucking low-wage job, hippy faggot

    Fixed.

    Seriously, this is a sign of a permanently changing economy. But I think there is another alternative than putting Open Course Ware behind a paywall: Cut the university executive salaries.
    >> Anonymous 09/27/10(Mon)13:59 No.2394046
    >>2393873
    Why is the middle fella's nose look like a broken limp dick?
    >> Anonymous 09/27/10(Mon)14:22 No.2394247
    Are you fucking kidding me? That's stingy as fuck. Are you still allowed to sit in on college courses even though you're not enrolled? I did that shit all the time for quauntum mechanics and astronomy. I was so involved in the classes and the teachers liked me so much they let me look through their telescope lol.

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