CultureCitizen
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Looking at the figures from Crash Course , it seems providing free ( or almost free) education for the world is quite cheap.
Currently they produce about 2 courses each 5 months.
With the current production costs tis means abount $100,000 per course. Not cheap, until you consider some courses like crash course history have more than 4 million views.
Now let's assume this is eventually expanded to college education . Each carreer woul consists of 100 courses. Considering it covers "only" the top 100 careers this would mean providing free education for every citizen in the world would have a cost of roughly $100 million per month.
So even if it is not free , it might be as cheap as $1 per student per month.
There would be other costs : students will still need a computer ( which may be leased at $20 per month) and some might prefer to have the actual physical media ( or need it when broad band is not available ) which would add another $20. Paying $51 per month seems to be really cheap comparing it to the current tuition costs.
In the end, even if government does not provide free education for everyone phylantropists will make it available.
And although not all careers are suited for e-learning ( medical doctor would be a good example).
Do you think this is how universal college education will be achieved ?
How will this technology affect private and public colleges ?
Should government give any incentive to this sites? If so in which form ?
Should this goal become a world wide coordinated effort ?
Links:
Support Crash Course creating Smarter People
Khan Academy
Currently they produce about 2 courses each 5 months.
With the current production costs tis means abount $100,000 per course. Not cheap, until you consider some courses like crash course history have more than 4 million views.
Now let's assume this is eventually expanded to college education . Each carreer woul consists of 100 courses. Considering it covers "only" the top 100 careers this would mean providing free education for every citizen in the world would have a cost of roughly $100 million per month.
So even if it is not free , it might be as cheap as $1 per student per month.
There would be other costs : students will still need a computer ( which may be leased at $20 per month) and some might prefer to have the actual physical media ( or need it when broad band is not available ) which would add another $20. Paying $51 per month seems to be really cheap comparing it to the current tuition costs.
In the end, even if government does not provide free education for everyone phylantropists will make it available.
And although not all careers are suited for e-learning ( medical doctor would be a good example).
Do you think this is how universal college education will be achieved ?
How will this technology affect private and public colleges ?
Should government give any incentive to this sites? If so in which form ?
Should this goal become a world wide coordinated effort ?
Links:
Support Crash Course creating Smarter People
Khan Academy
