http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/ Switched Comments for http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Aug 9th 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/
I suppose he will get back to trying to sterilize Africa. http://www.descubremas.com/2010/07/29/bill-gates-talks-about-vaccines-to-reduce-population/ ]]>Aug 9th 2010 5:36PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/
Secondly, the costs are still very high. For instance, I'm working on an MBA right now and am doing it through a mixture of online and in-room instruction. Each class costs about $2K regardless of what format I take them in. No cost savings there and from looking around I think that holds truer than many would like to believe.

Another example of how the world actually is versus the commone sense conclusions as to how it should be.
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enrollment continues to increase at most universities.

what will change is the model, but i think that colleges/universities will continue to modify their delivery methods to ensure that the customer gains more in person than for free online.]]>Aug 10th 2010 11:51AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Aug 10th 2010 11:56AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/
The best education is the Classical Liberal Arts education known as the Trivium [logic, grammar, rhetoric] and the Quadrivium [arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy].

Computers will NEVER be able to substitute for the essential role(s) of teacher(s) and student(s) discussing these subject(s).

Bill Gates has expertise in computers, programming, marketing, and probably everything related thereto. His opinions on everything else are, obviously, on the same level as the average voter: merely an opinion.]]>Aug 10th 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/I feel that there has to be a lot of changes in the upper level of education. Too many kids are going to college, who end up in jobs where the college degree means nothing. College have gone into being a big money making program, not in seeing that the kids learn things.
We need to constrate more on teaching kids in k-12 things other than getting ready for college. There are a lot who would be better off taking course in technical or other things then in taking a bunch of classes to qualify for college.
Right now it seems from what I read that is all they work at in regular schools, the chartered schools even go farther. but that leave out the kid who is great with his hands. who can think, but not the kind of stuff needed for college.
So all in all I think Bill Gates is wrong. Just because he invented window 7 does no tmake him right]]>Aug 10th 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Aug 10th 2010 12:19PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Aug 10th 2010 12:33PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Aug 10th 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Aug 10th 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Aug 10th 2010 12:50PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Aug 10th 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Of course if he were right, and he's not, he wouldn't stand to profit from such schemes would he? His head is stuck in the "cloud" along with many computer applications.
Funny that demand and competition for good, real, schools, teachers and scholars are going up, notwithstanding rising costs.
Those same real, good schools are offering Internet-based classes now too, via synchronous videoconferencing technologies.
I know that my students on the other end of the stream are who they're supposed to be, their work is actually theirs, and they get what they deserve.]]>Aug 10th 2010 12:51PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Aug 10th 2010 12:53PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Aug 10th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Aug 10th 2010 1:18PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/Aug 10th 2010 1:41PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/bill-gates-says-internet-will-offer-the-best-education-in-five-y/
I am, BTW, one of those "unionized quasi-professionals." Though, honestly, on good days, I do flatter myself and drop the "quasi-." Oh, and I don't pay much attention to the Department of Education, either.

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