By August 2015, the world's best lectures will be available free on the web, and this online education will be better than any single university.
Partly right ●●●●●
“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.”
- Said on
- 6 August 2010 · Remarks at the Techonomy conference, Lake Tahoe, August 2010
- Source
- Bill Gates: web will be better than college · KQED MindShift
- Should come true
- 2015
- How sure they sounded
- stated as fact ("you'll be able to")
- Categories
- Technology
- Importance
- 3 of 5 · Free top-quality online education would reshape higher education worldwide.
Outcome
Partly right
The first half came true: by 2012-2015 Coursera, edX, MIT OpenCourseWare and others put lectures from top universities online for free. But free online lectures did not become "better than any single university": MOOC completion rates stayed low and campus degrees kept their place, so only a weaker version happened.
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