Critique Of Koller's Cost Of Higher Education

Summary: Koller. D (August 2012) emphasize that today there is just not enough spots for the many more people who want and deserve a high quality education. Even in big countries, there are people who cannot afford a higher education. According to statistics mentioned in lecture, the cost of higher education has been increasing at almost twice, a total of 559% since 1985. Koller with her cofounder Andrew Ng. opened online education resource Coursera. This is a platform with the best 43 courses from the best instructors at the best universities and their purpose is to provide everyone in the world for free. Online courses started on given day, the students would watch videos on weekly basis and do real homework assignment for a grade, every assignment has deadline. At the end of the course, every student can get the certificate and then show it for employer and get a better job or present to an educational institution to count course for actual credit. She reports that Coursera become the great opportunity for
640,000 students from 190 countries. As an example she told about 3 students: Akash from small town India, he would never be able to afford Stanford-quality courses. Jenny single mother to complete her master’s degree and
Ryan because he cannot leave home because of his immune
She also emphasized the problem that the majority of people are stops learning after graduating from colleges and universities. Her observations were about useful strategy for students, as active learning, interacting with students all over the world and the better performance in the classroom. She concluded her speech with the idea that online education can be the useful instrument for everyone and the possibility that it can help to identify new great minds across the