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1. Economist
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   Seems to me that coursera, edX, etc. will eventually lead to drastically reduced number of faculty at all but top 25 or so schools. How will this play out?

   10 years ago # QUOTE 0 Volod 0 Vlad !

2. Economist
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   I'm worried about this myself and have already applied to go to Medical School next year.

   10 years ago # QUOTE 5 Volod 0 Vlad !

3. Economist
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   10 years? i am worried about whether there is academic work for my right now.

   10 years ago # QUOTE 9 Volod 0 Vlad !

4. Economist
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   OP doesn't understand that college is not about the courses but about the so called "college experience" and so on

   10 years ago # QUOTE 1 Volod 1 Vlad !

5. Economist
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   OP doesn't understand that college is not about the courses but about the so called "college experience" and so on

   Yes, how are undergrads supposed to get banged by profs if the profs are online? Cybersex?

   10 years ago # QUOTE 11 Volod 0 Vlad !

6. Economist
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   Cybersex. Been there, done that, got the T shirt.

   10 years ago # QUOTE 4 Volod 0 Vlad !

7. Economist
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   Academics will focus on research, just like they do now. They'll just have more time for research and can ignore teaching even more than they do now.

   10 years ago # QUOTE 2 Volod 0 Vlad !

8. Economist
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   And who will pay my wage?

   Academics will focus on research, just like they do now. They'll just have more time for research and can ignore teaching even more than they do now.

   10 years ago # QUOTE 3 Volod 0 Vlad !

9. Economist
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   So, we will have courses without instructors or content? Sounds very efficient... George Will's column a few days ago stated that there are now more administrators at US colleges than full-time faculty. Is this true??

   10 years ago # QUOTE 2 Volod 0 Vlad !

10. Economist
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    So, we will have courses without instructors or content? Sounds very efficient... George Will's column a few days ago stated that there are now more administrators at US colleges than full-time faculty. Is this true??

    I was once an academic admisturbator (now research faculty). Not only is it true that there are more administrators than faculty, but I can say (not only speaking for myself) that with few exceptions, administrators are the scum of the earth. With any luck, these parasites will have outsourced the faculty they nominally were supposed to serve to the web, and find themselves on the unemployed on the street, without any hosts to invade.

    10 years ago # QUOTE 9 Volod 0 Vlad !

11. Economist
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    ^Me too irate to complete coherent sentence. The reason OP cannot find a job is that some administurbator decided to pay one of his own kind first.

    10 years ago # QUOTE 2 Volod 0 Vlad !

12. Economist
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    ^Totally agree. Why a school needs 12 associate deans, the majority of them with negative value added is completely beyond me.

    10 years ago # QUOTE 1 Volod 0 Vlad !

13. Economist
    b215
    

    ^ complete agreement with you and myself, with one small exception: I would call then assholeciate deans.

    10 years ago # QUOTE 0 Volod 0 Vlad !

14. Economist
    7d06
    

    And who will pay my wage?
    Academics will focus on research, just like they do now. They'll just have more time for research and can ignore teaching even more than they do now.

    Students, endowments, and the taxpayers, same people funding your research now.

    10 years ago # QUOTE 0 Volod 0 Vlad !

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