Pentagon: You know what’s cool? A trillion-dollar fighter — from cnet.com by D. Terdiman
From DSC:
Cool? Seriously?! Is this where we want to spend a trillion $$? On more instruments of death? Geez…
Instead, I wonder what the United States could contribute to the world by building multimedia-based, high-end, interactive, engaging, personalized/customized, online-based learning materials that are expensive to build, but inexpensive to access?
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Also see:
Cap and gown learning on a shoestring budget — from timeshighereducation.co.uk by Jon Marcus
Excerpt:
With novel credentials being developed and employers seeing the value of low-cost study based on open courseware, Jon Marcus asks if the bricks-and-mortar elite will end up on the wrong side of history
