Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Will MOOCs bring down higher ed as we know it?

Some faculty are arguing that MOOCs are the start of dismantling traditional academic departments and eliminating tenured full-time faculty.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/mooc-professors-claim-no-responsibility-for-how-courses-are-used/43881?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Document-an-Open-Letter/138937/

Harvard's Clay Christensen claims 50% of all American universities will be bankrupt in 15 years, because online learning is the core technology that higher ed never before had... the technology that will blow aware the barriers that protected many universities from competition.

http://www.claytonchristensen.com/




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