by Greg Beato, Reason.com
To truly live up to their potential, MOOCs can’t just exist as a way for colleges and universities to replace the sage on the stage with a sage on the screen, and thus reduce their costs a bit. Instead, they should be used to liberate learning from campuses altogether. They should be used to eliminate multi-year tuitions, four-year degrees, and all the other centuries-old artifacts that higher education’s traditional providers currently rely on to keep their services exclusive and their rates high. The really good news is that MOOCs are just getting started. In the same way that HTML eventually went way beyond the blink tag and user-generated content evolved from bookmark lists to Wikipedia, digital courseware will continue to improve at a remarkably rapid rate.
http://reason.com/archives/2014/02/24/online-higher-education-retool
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