[LINK] MOOCS warning?

[tomk]

Might be an idea Rachel.

with PhD's from Ivy league universities now queuing up for Janitorial 
jobs from Philly to Boston...
and this from a country where the corporations interview promising 
undergrads before they qualify.

In Australia where there is very little "Guaranteed job with your 
degree".... there is a lot less imperitive for youngsters to go into 
hock to obtain an education.

Several Universities world wide are now offering free online courses.

This of course is in keeping with the philosophy of the most successful 
non-academics in the world; people like Einstein, Gates, Packer, Jobs, 
Zuckerberg.....

An interesting article from Forbes suggests that we should perhaps have 
entrepreneurial Universities instead...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/worldviews/2011/09/23/forbes-400-the-self-made-billionaire-entrepreneurs-who-said-no-to-college/

Like the Thiel Fellowship...

http://www.thielfellowship.org/

TomK

On 29/09/2012 1:57 p.m., Rachel Polanskis wrote:
> I am only recently familiar with MOOCS.  Is it worth me cross skilling my sysadmin role to
> study something like this and getting involved in it, given the item below?
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> http://theconversation.edu.au/anu-vice-chancellor-issues-moocs-warning-9881
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