by Alastair Creelman, Corridor of Uncertainty
Does the advent of heavyweight MOOC consortia mean that participating universities will transfer existing online courses to the MOOC world and keep their core business of traditional campus teaching under their own roof? Instead of seeing all this as some kind of conflict between the the old and the new I think we are seeing the establishment of universal access to education. By making educational resources freely available on the net we can make education accessible to all even if there are major infrastructure problems in many countries. With the help of internet cafes, libraries, learning centres and smart mobiles educational resources can be accessed even by the millions without any hope of owning a computer or mobile. What is now being established is a free basic layer offering universal access to learning resources and organised course models.
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