<p dir="ltr">Ice burn!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Coursera is more useful than most of my college textbooks. Then again, I've always used it post-secondary. I remain skeptical of its use in higher ed, but Minnesota's ban isn't a good start.</p>
<p dir="ltr">--Cameron<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 19, 2012 12:36 PM, "Jim Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>Georgia can't spell "Coursera" yet so they are trying to figure out how to cash in on Alabama and Tennessee water access.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Derek Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:derek@ihtfp.com" target="_blank">derek@ihtfp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">States are greedy.<br>
<br>
Apparently their issue is that Coursera isn't "registered" and isn't<br>
paying the state fees associated with said registration. It almost sounds<br>
like something Georgia would do!<br>
<br>
-derek<br>
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On Fri, October 19, 2012 12:18 pm, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> the world is screwy.<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Michael Trausch <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us" target="_blank">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I am currently taking a class on this site as is Erica. Mine is a logic<br>
>> course from Stanford; hers is programming and I think also from<br>
>> Stanford.<br>
>><br>
>> What is the problem with our world? Now we can make free services<br>
>> illegal<br>
>> too? What the hell happened to criminal activities having to cause harm<br>
>> to<br>
>> person or property?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://mobile.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/18/minnesota_bans_coursera_state_takes_bold_stand_against_free_education.html" target="_blank">http://mobile.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/18/minnesota_bans_coursera_state_takes_bold_stand_against_free_education.html</a><br>
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