By KEN DOCTOR, Nieman Lab
Journalism and education are both about knowledge. Could their post-disruption business models start to blur?What’s the difference between being informed and being educated? What’s the line between learning something new and being taught something new? Are news media and universities just two ways to do the same thing: gain knowledge? As Coursera, Udacity, edX, and several other offerings begin to unravel everything we thought we knew about post-secondary education, we can’t help but make links to the world of news. You gotta love the geeky name that applies to this new hybrid for-profit/nonprofit industry: MOOCs, or massively open online courses.
http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/05/the-newsonomics-of-news-u/
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