{"id":401,"date":"2009-09-06T03:35:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T07:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2009-09-06T03:35:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T07:35:10","slug":"outopen-sourcing-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"out\/open-sourcing education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/palm\/31\/09\/09\/05\/1431212_1.shtml\">\/. post<\/a> mentioned by <a href=\"http:\/\/jsevans.us\/?p=874\">Jason<\/a>, is Bob Cringely&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cringely.com\/2009\/09\/burn-baby-burn\/\">discussion<\/a> on outsourcing education.<\/p>\n<p>What is the emphasis on in-person education from specific professors? I&#8217;ve been asked for my transcript professionally once &#8211; and that&#8217;s because my current employer pays more attention to grades than technical aptitude.<\/p>\n<p>I can recall only a small handful of professors I would <em>want<\/em> to take classes with, and almost <em>none<\/em> who I actually got one-on-one time with while in school. (I think there was only ever one, Dale Bryant @ HVCC.)<\/p>\n<p>MIT, Berkeley, and myriad other schools are making their lectures available online for free.\u00a0Hundreds of schools have podcasts of classes and special events.<\/p>\n<p>So, why <strong><em>DO<\/em><\/strong> we insist on graduating from &#8220;the school&#8221; &#8211; and not learning what we can and want, when and where we can and are able?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the \/. post mentioned by Jason, is Bob Cringely&#8217;s discussion on outsourcing education. What is the emphasis on in-person education from specific professors? I&#8217;ve been asked for my transcript professionally once &#8211; and that&#8217;s because my current employer pays more attention to grades than technical aptitude. I can recall only a small handful &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=401\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">out\/open-sourcing education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-hmmm"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}