by Kyle Johnson, Wired Cloudline
Another pair of Stanford faculty said this week they were starting a company around Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). According to Inside Higher Ed, engineering professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller have started Coursera, which includes content from Stanford, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley. Joshua Kim argues that not every institution of higher education needs to offer MOOCs. I tend to agree, but for different reasons. The cloud services model works because a few large entities (think on the scale of Amazon or Google) provide an infrastructure service with the reliability and cost structure smaller companies can’t match. When you frame MOOCs as educational cloud services, you see that incubators like MIT and Stanford can provide course content at a scale very few institutions can match.
http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/03/coursera/
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