Re:The Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in CS is now ac...
by codezero on Monday October 07, 2013 @01:36PM
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In general, I think there is a lot more risk to the institution for handing out accredited degrees to paying remote students than for handing out an honor code certificate. They are just taking baby steps, which is a good thing.
Re:The Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in CS is now ac...
by ojbyrne on Monday October 07, 2013 @01:35PM
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This is the limit for their "pilot program" and will be dropped in the future.
Re:The Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in CS is now ac...
by whoeverest on Monday October 07, 2013 @01:51PM
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Great. Do you maybe know if they plan on dropping the price in proportion to the number of students rolled in?
I'm thinking: if they enroll 10x students, their expenses will be covered if every student paid 1/10 of the price. And getting a masters degree for $600 from an accredited university... that's really something.
Re:The Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in CS is now ac...
by Guvante on Monday October 07, 2013 @02:09PM
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There is a non-trivial per student cost assuming they don't just put your programs through an automated tester.
Re:The Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in CS is now ac...
by kd0amg on Monday October 07, 2013 @02:46PM
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And if everything you do for class can be graded by an automated tester, it's not going to be a very good MS.
Re:The Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in CS is now ac...
by bayesianhorse on Monday October 07, 2013 @06:05PM
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They will only have limited resources for per-student support, they will have to authorize each student and they will want to gradually develop what "passing grade" (or similar) they want to require.
Slow roll-out is probably the smart choice.
So on one hand we have options like edX, which reach a lot more people and are mostly free ($50 for a verified diploma) that reach orders of magnitude more students, and on the other a paid-and-accredited degree.
I personally hope they'll be more of the first ones, because of a) not being able to spend $6k and b) the warm feeling I get in my stomach when I think about free and high-quality education that reaches tens of thousands of people.