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Principal dd's curator insight,
April 15, 2013 2:21 AM
In 5 years, will my youngest child have the opportunity to 'attend' Harvard for her post-secondary via an evolving MOOC? Would she want to?
Her older sister's favourite part of attending college is interacting with new people; students and professors. Her older sister's least favourite part of attending college is interacting with new people; students and professors.
Choice ... with no $$ barrier to the learning process. Now that's really providing choice.
Principal dd |
"The arguments in which the four elements of MOOCs - 'massive', 'open', 'online', and 'course' - are one by one putated to be 'optional' or 'unnecessary' seems to me to be a desparate attempt to cleanse MOOCs of any disruptive impact they may have on the traditional action of in-person teaching to a teacher to a small group of people.
These arguments miss the point of the MOOC, and that point is, precisely, to make education available to people who cannot afford pay the cost to travel to and attend these small in-person events. Having one instructor for 20-50 people is expensive, and most of the world cannot afford that cost. That's *why* the institutions - from which the attendees of this conference were uniquely selected - charge thousands of dollars of tuition every year.
MOOCs were not designed to serve the missions of the elite colleges and universities. They were designed to undermine them, and make those missions obsolete."