subject: Do You Know What Is Diy College [print this page] In this summer without popular American films, some caption makers tried their best to translate the contents of lessons in famous universities of USA. The videos contained many well-known lessons just as finance courses in Yale, philosophy lessons in Harvard, etc.
The brandy new way to get access to MIT, Oxford for ordinary people is due to DIY College, which is managed by the web2.0 and free Internet commercial logic. In traditional education, the professors and learners are fixed. However, everyone can become a producer and transmitter of knowledge now. The video having the most amount of browse is the quality good.
TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) is a big meeting of brainstorm in our society. Each speech is given in 18 minutes, the topic of which catches the newest idea and most imaginative plans. The speakers rank from Bill Clinton to the director of Avanda. You are allowed to listen exactly one in the subway home if you take a laptop or an iPad with you.
The workers of those websites which provide these videos like to share their fruits. They translate this not for money but for the sense of achievement and honor.
In China, because of the limited resources of excellent teachers, it is the famous college that can have the right to absorb talented professors. Therefore, students are in the state of being teaches instead of choosing the one they would like to teach them. Some teachers in college even hold the teaching plan written about 20 years ago. Things get different nowadays. You just need a web line to make the education cost down. Thanks to the wide spread of web recourses! Whichever college you are from, you can learn the new concepts and ideas from famous professors all over the world.
This kind of education gives a fair chance for every Chinese student. Only if you are eager to learn are you sure to find pretty well resources. To speak exaggeratedly, even if you are in a small village, if you work hard, you can get the wonderful education from Harvard. An organizer of TED to China said seriously.
While in the other hand, these public lessons tend to be a shopping lesson. Take one in MIT for example; the making fee of one public course is about 20,000 dollars. Calling this a magnanimous act undertaken for the public good might be too kind-hearted.
That is a global shopping a teacher in Harvard said,#Harvard tries its best to attract more talents to come through showing the best courses to students around the world. I believe that MIT, Yale, Stanford would also think so.
Free public courses are becoming the stratagem to develop international talents for a country. What can we learn from this? Just as a professor in Chinese college told us: Campus in China should not use the funds to build more amazing houses but help students travel and learn in other advanced places across the world.
