The online portal Sci-Hub has a simple promise: Make academic research available to anyone, for free. Hoçâ Cové-Mbede interviewed Sci-Hub’s founder Alexandra Elbakyan about the communist ideals behind her platform, Sci-Hub’s media coverage, status quo inside science publishing and the virtues of
Why isn’t higher education free to the masses? Is being more intelligent a bad thing in the world? Put textbooks and training tools online for free. Music has been pirated for years, but educational resources are few and far between.
Higher education was basically free when it was only for the elite. When also normal folks started going to universities they increased the price; they do not want our kids to compete with theirs.
This is not enough. You need to have resources to invest the time to learn it and the interaction with other students and teachers is a big part of education. And the network is a big part of education being valuable for your career; that is the main reason the top universities can ask for so much money.
I’ll check it out. I tend to learn better by simply listening or reading. I’m an introvert (who can fake being an extrovert), so classroom settings and interaction were more of an internal frustration than a help.
Why isn’t higher education free to the masses? Is being more intelligent a bad thing in the world? Put textbooks and training tools online for free. Music has been pirated for years, but educational resources are few and far between.
Higher education was basically free when it was only for the elite. When also normal folks started going to universities they increased the price; they do not want our kids to compete with theirs.
Do you know the OER Commons? https://www.oercommons.org
This is not enough. You need to have resources to invest the time to learn it and the interaction with other students and teachers is a big part of education. And the network is a big part of education being valuable for your career; that is the main reason the top universities can ask for so much money.
I’ll check it out. I tend to learn better by simply listening or reading. I’m an introvert (who can fake being an extrovert), so classroom settings and interaction were more of an internal frustration than a help.