19-08-2013, 10:45 AM
An interesting trend in education sector to share... Will continue to follow-up...
Georgia Tech to offer online master’s degree for S$8,400
NEW YORK — Next January, the Georgia Institute of Technology plans to offer a master’s degree in computer science through massive open online courses (MOOCs) for a fraction of the on-campus cost, a first for an elite institution. If it even approaches its goal of drawing thousands of students, it could signal a change to the landscape of higher education.
From their start two years ago, when a free artificial intelligence course from Stanford enrolled 170,000 students, free massive open online courses have drawn millions. They have also yielded results like the perfect scores of Battushig, a 15-year-old Mongolian boy, in a tough electronics course offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
But the courses have not yet produced profound change, partly because they offer no credit and do not lead to a degree.
The disruption may be approaching, though, as Georgia Tech, which has one of the top computer science programmes in the United States, plans to offer a MOOC-based online master’s degree in computer science for US$6,600 (S$8,400) — far less than the US$45,000 on-campus price.
Dr Zvi Galil, the dean of the university’s College of Computing, expects that in the coming years, the programme could attract up to 10,000 students annually, many from outside the US and some who would not complete the full master’s degree. “Online, there’s no visa problem,” he said.
The programme rests on an unusual partnership forged by Dr Galil and Mr Sebastian Thrun, a founder of Udacity, a Silicon Valley provider of the open online courses.
http://www.todayonline.com/world/america...gree-s8400
Georgia Tech to offer online master’s degree for S$8,400
NEW YORK — Next January, the Georgia Institute of Technology plans to offer a master’s degree in computer science through massive open online courses (MOOCs) for a fraction of the on-campus cost, a first for an elite institution. If it even approaches its goal of drawing thousands of students, it could signal a change to the landscape of higher education.
From their start two years ago, when a free artificial intelligence course from Stanford enrolled 170,000 students, free massive open online courses have drawn millions. They have also yielded results like the perfect scores of Battushig, a 15-year-old Mongolian boy, in a tough electronics course offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
But the courses have not yet produced profound change, partly because they offer no credit and do not lead to a degree.
The disruption may be approaching, though, as Georgia Tech, which has one of the top computer science programmes in the United States, plans to offer a MOOC-based online master’s degree in computer science for US$6,600 (S$8,400) — far less than the US$45,000 on-campus price.
Dr Zvi Galil, the dean of the university’s College of Computing, expects that in the coming years, the programme could attract up to 10,000 students annually, many from outside the US and some who would not complete the full master’s degree. “Online, there’s no visa problem,” he said.
The programme rests on an unusual partnership forged by Dr Galil and Mr Sebastian Thrun, a founder of Udacity, a Silicon Valley provider of the open online courses.
http://www.todayonline.com/world/america...gree-s8400
