[LINK] Link archive with ads on it

[Tom Worthington]

At 01:02 PM 25/09/2008, Darrell Burkey wrote:
>... Egads, tell me it's not true! If things are that stretched here 
>at the ANU then have a look at the same service being offered for 
>free without ads  ...

No, I was objecting to a third party web site taking content from ANU 
and putting ads on it.

But now you come to mention it, perhaps a viable business model for 
higher education in Australia is to give away the courses and just 
charge for the parking and web advertising. Campuses are already 
starting to look like real estate developments, with apartments for 
students and shopping malls. ;-)

More seriously, both MIT and  Stanford offer free course material 
online 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2008/09/free-stanford-university-engineering.html>. 
But their business model is that these are just teasers, not proper 
e-learning. The average student will still have to attend the campus 
and in any case you still have to pay for the assessment.



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