Posted by HomelyCygnet on January 17, 2014, at 8:06:42
In reply to Re: Chill *ss Questions about Good and Evil, posted by Willful on January 16, 2014, at 9:44:32
I agree. Some of the classes have 20 or 30 thousand students. Of course the book isn't mandatory but that is a lot of publicity. And this course seems built around the book which was released a few months ago. And it's not a very good book.
> why is it these people so often assign their own publications as primary reading? is it possible they're using coursera to beef up sales of otherwise unprofitable academic books? Some of these courses are quite large-- I hear--
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> It;s one thing if the prof is a noble-prize-winning economist-- but is Bloom saying that there are not better books in the field than his own? Is this legit? or does it somehow smack of a conflict of interest?
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Duckling I listen and for many a time I have been half in love and many a time much more
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