Qi Gu has written an editorial for The Daily Cardinal (University of Wisconsin) on OpenCourseWare. Gu suggests that OpenCourseWare is useful, but warns against offering credit. From the editorial:
A for certification might be going too far for open learning projects. There are some valid concerns that this would dilute the brand names of universities. If everybody claims to have been a Harvard student, where is the world-renowned prestige built in the past 200 years? So far the open resources are mostly just course materials such as lecture notes, assignments and online textbooks. These can’t even make up a full definition of “courses,” not to mention “education” (which is what is truly valued behind each diploma).
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