[ExI] chain rule

[Dave Sill]

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:30 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> My grandson is taking a totally online course this summer.  May have to go
> to the school to take the tests. My question is:  what will perfectly
> adequate online courses do to colleges and universities?  What if a person
> applies for a job and presents no educational credentials, but can ace any
> tests they give him?
>
> Colleges then are relegated to providing labs and such and play little
> part in the dissemination of information.  Then, out side of labs, the
> teachers are free to write grants for support from gov and business and
> only have lab work to do.  Theses and dissertations are done online with
> online mentors, who may not be associated with colleges at all.
>
> I think it will take a long time before most of this is free, but I can
> see it happening..   An online course may charge if it gets a larger number
> of 'likes' on Facebook.  What a strange world compared to what we grew up
> with.
>
See:

https://www.amazon.com/Nearly-Free-University-Emerging-Economy-ebook/dp/B00EZCR9S0

The university model is pretty broken, as Smith explains, so something will
have to change.

-Dave
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