Profs claim they'll teach courses to thousands of enrollees:
http://chronicle.com/article/4-Professors-Discuss-Teaching/132125/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/u-of-illinois-at-springfield-offers-new-massive-open-online-course/31853
To my mind, this is all utter nonsense. I taught an online course this past spring. It had ten students, and I spend every Saturday, grading and commenting on their week's work, responding to their queries, and posting the next week's assignments. When everybody can get into a course, nobody gets personal attention. The prof might just as well not be there.
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