by Online Learning Insights
“Welcome to the college education revolution. Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately necessary” Thomas Friedman, NYT Mr. Friedman is right – there will be a ‘revolution’ of some sort coming in the near future with the launch of online learning platforms by the Ivy Universities acting as the catalyst, edX and Coursera, the most recent examples. I’ve been following a number of blog posts and articles this past week about MOOC’s, Massive Open and Online Courses – and there’s been much speculation, misconceptions, exaggerations and misinformation. It’s time to clear the air – in this post I’ll define what MOOC’s are and are not, what the skeptics are saying, and I’ll conclude the post by [attempting] to clarify the differences (and similarities), between MOOC’s, online courses for credit, and traditional face-to-face courses.
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