They will probably run into other problems along the way; I've started working with the School of Information's OpenCourseware initiative here, and the courses are pretty bare-bones. They'll have the syllabus, a reading list perhaps, maybe lecture slides (which will have either cleaned out all copyrighted material or gone through a lengthy process to get permission to use them), and I suppose if the professor created them and gave permission for them to be used, there might be recordings of the lectures.
But probably one of the hardest things to deal with will be the lack of access to recent literature. Without paying out money, you aren't getting access to libraries or databases; you can't get most of the things on your average reading list off of the internet. You might not even be able to get them from a local public or university library.
And that, I suspect, is where there might be major problems. Finding high-quality teachers without being able to pay them will be problematic, but without the access to the literature that supports the courses, there will be further problems.
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Date: 2009-01-27 08:23 pm (UTC)But probably one of the hardest things to deal with will be the lack of access to recent literature. Without paying out money, you aren't getting access to libraries or databases; you can't get most of the things on your average reading list off of the internet. You might not even be able to get them from a local public or university library.
And that, I suspect, is where there might be major problems. Finding high-quality teachers without being able to pay them will be problematic, but without the access to the literature that supports the courses, there will be further problems.