States are moving to cut college costs by introducing open-source textbooks

Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by LeeHwang on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @11:58AM (#14194720)

Wow, It seems like we already have the technology ready to go to create fast track online programs.

Why don't we just allow Pearson to bypass universities altogether and award degrees for cheaper than the 40,000 current universities cost.

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:21PM (#14195847)

Pearson isn't accredited. ;)

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by theseatoms on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:36PM (#14196037)

I think that's what GP is suggesting we change.

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:38PM (#14196055)

I hope not. I'd rather rethink the idea of accreditation.

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by LeeHwang on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:18PM (#14196487)

Why? If they are already writing the curriculum,lectures labs/homework and Professors are justing using that material and forcing kids to pay for it.

Why don't we just cut out the extremely expensive middlemen, universities and professors ?

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by Larrikin on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:51PM (#14196795)

I think his point was that universities that are "teaching" like this shouldn't be accredited

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by dubya on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:48PM (#14197844)

I don't think Pearson has such materials for upper level courses. They could probably figure out a way to be contractors for the courses no on wants to teach though, if they can find a way to work for less than lecturers do.

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