We should start a movement of colleges students recording all their courses on zoom so we can post it all in a google drive and give higher education to people
class reinforcement busy work for rich kids.
Honestly, having some quasi-academic busy work in your late teens/early 20s in a quasi-independent environment is a pretty great idea. Just shouldn't be limited to rich kids.
This is definitely true, although might be useful for stem courses or for people who have never had any sort of collegiate level analysis.
Not saying that it's the only way for people to learn critical thinking, etc, but for people who haven't gone through college or won't get the chance it still might help them.
It's a good idea and you should do it. You should also know that a lot of colleges already have free public offerings; MIT does a lot for example.
Deciding what goes in a syllabus is an important job that's not covered by a giant folder full of pirated course material. I suppose you need to know what material you have available before you can make a syllabus out of it. But it's something to keep in mind; be on the lookout for people with the expertise to do this.
The real work is done by TAs. The best way to replicate this in a pirate setting is with reading groups.
Very good point. A lot of lectures are simply available on youtube right now too. But having a curriculum to navigate through the options is important, and people to discuss the material with is even better.
Anything you could learn at college is probably already available online. It's a weird sort of media preservation so I inherently support it, but I think this would just expose college as being, in it's current form, mostly about social conditioning and class maintenance
The value in college isn't the actual material, it's the credential. Anyone with time, a library card and internet access could access all of the material already
Goes farther than that. It's about the community - similarly aged and educated young people looking to study the same material in between getting shitfaced and boning. Also, professors and lecturers are nice to have - both from a "I've taught a hundred kids like you this same material before, so I've got an actionaable lession plan" and a "Yeah, I know a guy at Exxon and I can set you up with an interview" perspective. Even the credentialing is incidential relative to the networking. Alumni chains get you face-to-face with HR departments and hiring managers. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a senior manager with an Texas A&M diploma on the wall just happen to fill his department up with other A&M grads.
College is more than just reading theory.
This could be pretty cool, should go without saying that course materials should be shared as well.
Also might not be the best idea to use google drive to store/distribute videos widely since they'll likely get taken down.
perhaps nextcloud? Haven't used it, just googled "open source google drive"
I support it.
There are a lot of college courses on youtube btw. Search a class name + search for playlists and it is likely that someone has already uploaded the course. Happy learning :)
