Re:Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
by Noseshine on Friday June 17, 2016 @09:56AM
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Percentage matters only if you care about the rest of humanity. If you are happy with having a prosperous minority you are fine. It's a matter of choice, you are right, there is no hard line set by the universe.
Re:Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
by Noseshine on Saturday June 11, 2016 @05:43AM
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Percentage matters only if you care about the rest of humanity. If you are happy with having a prosperous minority you are fine. It's a matter of choice, you are right, there is no hard line set by the universe.
Why does the percentage matter? If 100 million people take MOOCs, and only 1% of them are poor and actually need them, then they still helped a million people! That's nothing to sneer at.
Second, what is your source, because I'm skeptical of that. And just because someone is "privileged" doesn't necessarily mean the courses have no value to them. They may have an education, but probably not in the thing they are studying on MOOCs. A bunch of people have learned about machine learning through MOOCs, for example.