TED Community » Chidinma Igboanugo

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  A comment on Conversation: Do you think there is a benefit in providing a percentage of courses within every college free and online?

  Sep 22 2012: There is udacity.com where you learn by solving challenging projects. They offer courses mainly on computer science and engineering courses, but also some statistics and start-up business courses
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  A comment on Conversation: Do you think there is a benefit in providing a percentage of courses within every college free and online?

  Aug 30 2012: There is http://www.academicearth.org/ which offers free online courses from MIT, Caltech, Harvard.

• A comment on Conversation: Do you find it difficult to engage in intellectual conversations with people in general?

  Aug 30 2012: Yes I do MOST of the time.

• A comment on Conversation: Do you think there is a benefit in providing a percentage of courses within every college free and online?

  Aug 29 2012: A lot of universities and bodies are already doing that, there is Cousera and MIT, which offer free courses. Also Antioch College in Yellow Spring, Ohio, is offering free tuition to all students who enroll in the college in the next three years.
  
  At anytime, anyone can go online and equip themselves on various informational tools at any time from one of these sources and the web in general, you tube, etc. But the question still remains, how can one get free online certified education.

• A reply on Conversation: Learning in schools ought to immediately be supported with adequate ways to practice what is learned.

  Aug 28 2012: Thanks, well said