rcon85

Good idea, but seriously lacking in just about everything else.

No online classes? No search function or categories? No preview or course outline? ("You'll learn how to make a bag" doesn't cut it). No details about what makes their instructors qualified to teach? (Being successful doesn't make you a good teacher). Single classes with an average length of 90 minutes? What could anyone learn from that?

Nothing about their website convinces me that their classes are worth my time or money. I'm all in favor of making education more efficient, but this site just seems to be doing it all wrong.

I'd say it's more dependent upon the faculty and students you learn from/with than the subject you're studying. Your classes could be led by lazy, incompetent instructors and filled with dull students who are all just looking for "job security and decent benefits" (barf). On the other hand, there's a chance you could meet your future business partner while being taught by an inspiring professor.

Every class is a gamble unless there's some reliable evaluation system available. But if you think students are actually capable of rating teachers in any meaningful way, think again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Fox_effect

Also: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/college-inc/2010/06/study_h...