Post hate about Russian "online courses" and world records

I have no words.

Observing the recent time behind the leading universities, it seems that they are rapidly moving in the right direction.

Online courses Stanford University, Berkley and MIT in an accessible form
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MIT and Harvard invest 60 million dollars in distance learning

John Resig goes to non-profit KHAN academy

But what to say, the great SICP ( mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html ) has long been available in both text and video versions.

And what about us?

I started studying at KPI, when Google was not there yet.
The guys and I were obsessed with web stuff.
We wanted to change the world.
No one knew what was going to happen, but everyone knew that the web was the future.
Then java applets ruled the ball. Microsoft had its implementation of Java and did not have .Net.
About Python heard units, PHP did the first timid steps.
Haskell and functional programming was outside the radar.

But since the idea of ​​free dissemination of information was vital in all heads, we suggested that the department post online courses. Then it was revolutionary. We were ready to translate lectures into electronic format. We were ready to fully take the support of the site. We were idealists.

But the answers from the teachers sounded quite the same.

- “Why do I need this?”
- "And who will pay me for this?"
- “And why should I give my work for free?”
- “So this can be downloaded for free!” ...

Many years later. By the standards of the IT industry a whole era.

altavista, aport ...? Who is it?
5 inch floppy disks? lolshto?
Is the “four” P4? Yes?
Delphi, FoxPro, MFC ...

The other day I talked with a student who, by chance, is studying in the same department that I graduated from. Oddly enough, the same ideas came to his mind.
With the same result. Zero.

And for some reason, I recalled a quote from Vonnegut.

And he began to tell me about the concentration camps and about
the way the fascists made soap and candles from the fat of the murdered Jews and everything else.
I could only repeat the same thing:
- I know. I know. I know .

Hatred. Hatred. Hatred.

But a holy place is never empty.

And if people demand free “education,” someone will give it to them.

infobusiness2.ru/specials/mibd.html

"World Record !!! 11111cos (0)"

"Beat the Cambridge!"

"50,000 hamster participants"

But somewhere we have seen these guys, is not it?

Wait, oh shi ~ ...

100,500 "infobusiness" all over the internet.

Red text on a white background from which nauseous.

“About ** enous educational video for free” in LJ at Tema Lebedev.

Hatred. Hatred. Hatred.

And this, gentlemen, is the face of online education in the post-Soviet space.

This is the diagnosis of our educational system.

It…

Hatred.

Hatred.

Hatred.