quinta-feira, 1 de agosto de 2013

MOOCs are Toast or at Least Should Be

The ongoing revelations about poor test results, high dropout rates and disgruntled university instructors make it clear that MOOCs are not the panacea for 21st higher education that their proponents claimed they would be. 
In fact, outside of the opportunity to build new online technology platforms and develop advantageous partnerships with companies external to academia, MOOCs have turned out to be only a minor achievement in pedagogy—and an expensive one at that. 
Forbes