Comes an article in slate that covers what we covered a few months ago...
The MOOC will never be anything more than a study group, and will not come into its own until is figures out how to take the top 5% (one in twenty) and let them lead the other 19 in studying the material.
People keep trying to ascribe to the web powers just not there.
As of this month, that prediction is looking overblown. After a year in which almost every big-name university in the United States rushed to get in on massive open online courses, or MOOCs, the backlash is in full force. And no wonder: The idea of free online video lectures replacing traditional classrooms not only offends many educators’ core values, but it threatens their jobs. Worse, the early evidence suggests the model may not work very well: A partnership between San Jose State and Udacity this spring ended with more than half the students failing. In the same spaces where advocates not long ago trumpeted the MOOC revolution, critics now warn of the “MOOC delusion.”The idea that MOOCs would replace anything was absurd, the medieval model of sage on the stage will live on like the Pub and the Trade Show Booth.
The MOOC will never be anything more than a study group, and will not come into its own until is figures out how to take the top 5% (one in twenty) and let them lead the other 19 in studying the material.
People keep trying to ascribe to the web powers just not there.
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