Will edX Put Harvard and MIT Out of Business?

Re:Will edX Put Harvard and MIT Out of Business? by diminish on Monday May 07, 2012 @12:55PM (#3939823)

the first nobel prize winner graduate of edX will change everything. i sometimes think, should online universities also be strictly selective?

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Re:Will edX Put Harvard and MIT Out of Business? by grayed_comments on Monday May 07, 2012 @01:11PM (#3939888)

Isn't most of the "prestige" of a nobel prize winner normally directed at the university at which they were conducting research (assuming it is an academic heavy field) at the time?

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Re:Will edX Put Harvard and MIT Out of Business? by Turing_Machine on Monday May 07, 2012 @02:54PM (#3940421)

In my experience, every institution that has any connection whatsoever to the Nobel Laureate claims him or her. Undergrad, graduate school, research location, even high school (one local high school claims multiple Nobel Laureates -- unusual, but I don't know if it's unique).

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Re:Will edX Put Harvard and MIT Out of Business? by UK-AL on Monday May 07, 2012 @01:06PM (#3939863)

Why? Selective education is used in order to focus limited resources on certain people. That isn't really problem online, unless you want to be an ass and restrict people's abillity to improve themselves for no reason.

That's why it's so scary for universities and elites. One of the moral validations for restricting the life chances of certain groups of people has been removed. Others will pop up I'm sure.

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