How to Foil Cheaters
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It is 2:44 Am so I will make this short. Someone correct me if i am wrong, but I believe MIT is giving away all its classes for free in a web version.
Of course, you can not claim a degree from there without paying. What this does is get people into the educational stream at MIT where they can then prove the the school and the themselves that they are a good fit for an MIT degree.
Sure some folks will get some free value, but in the long run everyone will win as it is just a shell game as to were the profit/revenue is taken. What is does for MIT is show their knack for innovation, leadership, and ability to attract the best of the best.
How many web models are there where people are making millions either reducing cost ofr giving things away. I have a Gillette razor that they sent me for free. Of course, if I buy just five blades I could have a years worth of BIC disposables.
Don't know if lateral thinking applies to this situation, but it may be better than slapping each other around.
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Hi Roger
MIT, Tufts and some other universities do offer free open source learning courses but Susan is an individual trying to make a living.
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Well actually the schools don't give away much. They just let you take the course, but if you want credit for it then you need to pay the fee.
So instead of fighting the problem headon I was trying to suggest that maybe there might be a way to redirect the forces at work. LEts say Sue had a website called
"Magna Cum Laude graduates of the Sue School of Architectural Illustration". So if you are a registered graduate of the course your best work and your CV can be posted in a gallery receiving international attention.So suddenly a lot of people are sneaking into her class. However, low and behold they find they learned something and they are becoming pretty good. Now they have no doubt about their skills, they would like them seen and certified to. Since they did not pay they can not been seen on Sue's architectural rendering site. So they pay for the course retroactively and now they are part of a respected gallery/showplace.
I am just suggesting there might be more to gain from channeling human nature than fighting it head on. Not sure of the validity, but am just trying to float a concept.
When I hit a brick wall I always like to back off and think about more productive approaches and study elegant solutions to similar problems.
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