by Keith Devlin, Huffington Post
One feature MOOCs offer, that is phenomenally powerful educationally, is to separate credentialing from the learning process. When the marks a student receives on each assignment or test count towards the final grade on which a credential is awarded, as familiarly happens in K-12, the awarding of course grades can no longer be used as an effective way for a student (and an instructor) to gauge progress. The grade becomes more important than the learning. But in a MOOC, the two can (and should!) be kept separate. Since a student can take a MOOC as many times as she or he wants, with the only cost being time (learning time!), the student can elect which iteration of the course to take for a credential.
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