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Comment Credit where credit is due. (Score 1) 172

by Sean Curry on Sunday September 06, 2015 @12:00PM (#50467227) Attached to: Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem

The credit should go to Gerard T' Hooft for the holographic principle and this work for which he received a Nobel Prize. Hawking is just slurping up media credit because he's a household name. Let's not get into the whole Edison/Tesla thing and get it right folks.

What Happens When the "Sharing Economy" Meets Higher Education 94

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 02, 2015 @12:01PM from the and-now-I'm-a-professor dept.

jyosim writes Professors now make big bucks teaching in educational marketplaces. Sites that let anyone teach courses might just change the way people think about the value of education, about the nature of expertise, and about what teaching is worth. From the article: "When Nick Walter graduated with an information-systems degree, he intended to start his own tech company to create the next big iPhone app, as so many twenty-somethings have tried in recent years. But then something dawned on him: He could make more money teaching. He set up a free account on a site called Udemy, which lets anyone teach online courses and charge for them, and then uploaded a series of lecture videos and exercises showing other people how to make apps. Walter had no experience teaching, no affiliation with a university or accredited educational institution, and—by his own admission—no particular gifts as a computer-science student. But that doesn’t matter to Udemy, or to any of a number of similar platforms that have emerged in recent years."

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