[AISWorld] Georgia Tech offers a $6, 600 Master's Degree in Computer Science

[Geoffrey Hubona]

And, in my opinion, the ever-spiraling cost of quality higher education was
a structural problem in the United States. Stories of graduate students and
professionals recently-graduated from the Ivy Leagues saddled with
six-figure debt were common. I do not think anyone can question the ability
of Georgia Tech to teach a Master's in Computer Science.....and it is
online and accessible around the world....competitor programs and schools
will have to at least attempt to follow suit, or find something else to
teach.

Geoff

On Monday, May 27, 2013, John Artz wrote:

> Well put!! And therein lies the key to survival for universities.
>
> John
>
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Ilia Bider <ilia at ibissoft.se> wrote:
>
>  Leon,
>
> What is the problem with this trend? I cannot see any, as long as
> educators are serious when designing and conducting on-line courses.
> Education is not disappearing :-) , it just takes different forms :-(.
>
> --Ilia
> On 2013-05-27 19:28, Kappelman, Leon wrote:
>
>  *Dennis K. Berman<http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=213114599&authType=name&authToken=Xtq2&goback=%2Empd2_*1_*1_*1_*1_%2F20130524203941*5213114599*5the*56*5600*5master*5s*5degree&trk=mp-ph-pn>
> *
>
> *Business Editor of the Wall Street Journal*
>
> *The $6,600 Master's Degree*
>
> May 24, 2013 ****
>
> There comes a time in every concept's life when the
> thing...actually...happens.****
>
> If you're reading this post, you probably already have some familiarity
> with all the jostling going on in the education business. You know, for
> instance, that a number of companies are experimenting with MOOCs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course>(Massive Open Online Courses), tablet-based
> learning <http://mashable.com/2013/03/06/classroom-tablets/>, and all
> kinds of in-school networking and Big Data analytics.****
>
> And then came last week's announcemen<http://blog.udacity.com/2013/05/sebastian-thrun-announcing-online.html>
> t.****
>
> Georgia Tech, one of the nation's best engineering schools, said it would
> begin offering fully-accredited, real-world master's degrees in computer
> science via the Internet. The cost: About $6,600. Or roughly the cost of a
> few years of *interest* that many graduate students pay on a big loan to
> fund their education.****
>
> Here is the key line from the *The Wall Street Journal<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324031404578483670125295836.html>
> '*s take on the program:****
>
> The upfront costs to create the online lectures run between $200,000 and
> $300,000, but once those hard outlays have been made the cost per each
> additional student is minimal, said Mr. Isbell. He estimated the school
> would have to hire one full-time teacher for every 100 online students as
> opposed to one full-time teacher for every 10 or 20 students who study on
> campus.****
>
> The description made me recall my freshman political science class in the
> mid-1990s, held in a dusty auditorium in West Philadelphia, a bow-tied
> professor reading his erudite, but canned, lecture to a few hundred
> freshmen.****
>
> *Looking back on it now, this experience had far more in common with the
> Middle Ages than the world of 2013.* What's the difference between
> watching a lecture in an auditorium an
>
> *John M. Artz, PhD
> Webpages: http://home.gwu.edu/~jartz
> Email: jartz at gwu.edu <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jartz at gwu.edu');>
>
> “Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.” -
> Stoic Proverb***
>
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