Thursday, February 21, 2013

How the heck can a MOOC make money?

That's the question puzzling EdX, the Harvard/MIT project to produce massive open online courses.  Both schools have a $30 million up-front investment on the line.  They have offered participating schools two models for revenue sharing:

http://chronicle.com/article/How-EdX-Plans-to-Earn-and/137433/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Here's what the agreement language looks like:

http://chronicle.com/article/Document-The-Revenue-Sharing/137429/

With a sort of Mini-MOOC of my own in the offing,

https://www.canvas.net/courses/american-counter-terrorism-law

I'm watching these experiments with considerable interest.




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