Too Much Free Time

Too Much Free Time

by Mike Masnick




Edu-Sham's Automatic Professor Machine

from the buy-one-now! dept

A professor is going around the country making fun of the concept of online education by hawking his Automatic Professor Machines (APMs) from his company EDU-SHAM. The fake sales pitch for the devices describes how you insert your money, chose the course you want (pre-school to post doc), download the materials, do the work on your own time, and return to upload your assignments. Hey, wait, that's actually not such a bad idea...

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