RE: Credentialing and Self-education
This is a lovely article! I like the idea of it, and I think education should be free and open sourced. I was lucky enough to be homeschooled by myself in an awesome program where I got a set of PLOs for a subject and then had to design my own course, projects and sources from there all by myself.
Through this I have gained a lot of confidence in self-studying. I will not take a university course unless I can audit it, and maybe a college course if it is interesting and cheap. I know that I can learn anything from the internet, from the library and from people in real life, and since I am already living an alternative lifestyle I do not need the credentials.
Although, I am studying everything but math! I def need a teacher for math because it is not my strong subject to say the least lol. I can excell at everything else, but leave math to the people who like math!
My biggest hope is an Open source math resource. Is quite difficult but it could happen. I don't know if education should be free and open source but we have the means to try and make it better and cheaper, by a lot.
Have you heard of Khan Academy? It is useful for basic math skills, I am not sure how advanced it gets because I am still trying to hone the basic skills lol.
I think that as it stands now, most people need to be able to make money off of teaching what they know, so it is hard for it to be free and open. However, as society transitions to a giving and sharing economy (that is the hope at least) we will be able to share and gift our knowledge freely! For those of us who want to learn and teach as a lifestyle, this would be ideal.
The more we share, the more we grow and learn together!
At the very least, we can make it better and cheaper right now, and move towards that ideal world where everyone can share without fearing for their survival or resources!
I'm familiar with Khan Academy. It has served many people and that is amazing. Unfortunately is not quite as in-depth as one would wish.
Most physics programmes complain about the lack of depth that freshman students arrive with at universities. Does everyone need to be a physics? no, but it shows how mismanaged are the expectations in high school.
It would be great if the incentives were aligned for a bigger portion of the population to advance without getting lost. That's the first step, a compass.
Thanks for passing by :)
Indeed, maybe with the rise of the internet and innovative people such as those here on Steemit, including yourself, physics and math will become more accesible to the average person!