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Coursera is a terrible education platform for most math intensive majors. I suppose it's not suitable for majors that require laboratory equipment either.It does have a lot to do with costs. The Government is not the People after all. every single penny spent on universities could be spent somewhere else. even sth like Skillshare or Coursera would be way better than these universities. The only organizations I can stand behind is Fani & herfei type organizations.
The quality of education on Coursera is poor overall. I haven't heard of Skillshare but I doubt it's any better.
Can you get a degree in law in Iran from such a platform, for example?
Meanwhile, we also have Maktabkhooneh.org in Iran. I would say some courses on Maktabkhooneh is better than their respective courses on Coursera but overall, the quality of Maktabkhooneh is not good either.
If people want to pay money to get a degree from an IAU branch, or a PNU branch, or a private university in Iran, that's up to them. If there's a demand for these universities, why not?
After all, many of the US institutions are crap as well. A long time ago, I talked to someone with a learning disability from the US. I was 16 or so back then (it was before I started to study for the Concourse). He was studying physics in a small private university in the US. Let's just say that the 16 year old me in high school knew more calculus than him. I do admire him hard for his motivation to study a really difficult subject with a learning disability, but I'm just saying that there are such universities in the US as well. Not every US university trains high quality graduates. Some of them are just there for people who have money and want to learn something in a non-competitive environment, or just need a degree.