Universities offering degrees thru MOOC will bring revolution in terms of employment/unemployment and labor market in general .... i can foresee a scenario where for every single job position there will be lot more international applicant ready to work remotely 10 times cheaper than the same qualified person in 1st world countries ...
From TFA: "When Title III of the JOBS Act takes effect – likely in 2014 – this number will multiply as any individual will be able to invest in private offerings."
This is going to change the higher education not only in USA but worldwide .... kudos to all who put this kind of effort in disrupting the long due stagnant eco-system ... it is going to be proven as a god-sent-gift for a student coming from a poor financial background from 3rd world countries ...
Its better to use service from someone who follows Zero-Knowledge policy ... one such service is SpiderOak - may be there are few more ... on this platform we need to encourage to use those services so that other can notice the demand and change their policy too (though difficult but not impossible) ....
It is not completely impossible as SpiderOak and others are able to offer.... it could be the cost of implementing it .... Cost vs. Benefit ... benefit in terms of how much revenue it can generate by adding particular feature....but the demand is growing so lets hope that things change soon.
your website is way too confusing .... I'm sorry but you need to add a video about 'how it works' and include how you're different than other networks and where is the savings coming from and for whom (publisher or advertisers or both)....
also is it free for publishers or is it free for advertisers??? ... do u mean u dont charge fees or commission that other network charge to advertisers???
btw, if your basic service is free then there is no need to tell people that u charge for adding value because the subconscious mind doesnt accept that well .... so just create a comparison chart to show how your service is FREE compared to others and in 3rd column you add your value added service which in fact should be really something that others are not offering or its too expensive ....
I think RISUG (Vasalgel) is the most promising male contraceptive ... its waiting for FDA appoval and is being used in India for more than a decade, it looks like it will change the world :) , ofcourse we need more data before we can really say RISUG will be effective against HIV transmission ... but nevertheless its very promising amongst all other options ...
>> Nothing I will tell you, can explain you what it feels to be in that place- I only hope no other kid goes through that ..
I can understand what you're trying to say, the problems, issues and challenges are on so many levels and there are so many layers that unless you experience it yourself there is no way you can put words to it ...
- first of all, parents are uneducated and to motivate them to educate their kids is the biggest challenge of all ...
- then double it with lack of resources (this includes time, money, energy, good schools, good teachers etc.)
- triple this with no free schooling in india, not even primary , there may be few government schools which are like good for nothing (although there might be an exception like one in million)
- then there is peer pressure for parents whose kids are not earning but spending time in school.
- then there is huge corruption and bureaucracy
- then there are other family responsibilities like getting your sister married (when u dont even have money for your kids school fees or even worst when you cant provide proper food, clothing and shelter) OR taking care of your elderly parents when you cant afford medicines OR someone died in the family and you have to burden the burial cost etc etc etc..
And the list goes on and on.....
SO I SALUTE to all those parents who won uphill battle by going against the tide and made sure that their kids are well educated ...
One of the very interesting aspects of Indian culture is that there is (or used to be) a very high social respect for a "well-educated" person. So if you have a PhD, then even if you don't make a ton of money, you get the same social status as a wealthy businessman. I don't know why this is so, but it has led to nearly everyone desiring their children to have a better education than they did and escape from the grips of poverty.
There is a paragraph in Richard Feynman's "What do you care what other people think?" where a carribean cab driver asks Feynman how is it that his Indian neighbor (presumably of the same economic standing) has a son studying medicine at Maryland? Which is when Feynman explains this hypothesis.
There are still parts of India where there is tremendous social respect for "well educated" people. This can be easily seen if you observe Matrimonial ads. It would be clearly mentioned that people are looking for someone with college degrees, post graduate degrees etc.
On a tangential, I have always found matrimonial ads a very interesting mirror on the Indian society. The way these ads show people's ambitions and fears is amazing.
