I had two counterintuitive maxims in mind earlier today and I have forgotten one, I hope it returns to me.
The other is that people who accuse others of “arrogance” are, generally speaking, envious of achievement and humility, that they know they are incapable of themselves.
I think arrogant people exist but I do not think arrogance comes from insecurity but from ignorance and other defects like classism and machismo.
Meanwhile, do I have the MOOC model right?
A faculty member gives away recordings of his or her lectures and other course materials to their university, which sells them to a company that makes them available to the world for free. Then, another university sells people credit for, basically, watching the videos.
I know there are other details and hedges but isn’t this essentially correct — your university sells your course materials and another university sells credit to people for observing them? How is this not exploitative of you, and of the students at the other university?
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 