by the Australian Financial Review
Will a new generation of students weaned on social networking regard online learning on mobile devices as a completely natural way to be educated? What will happen to the profession- and vocation-focused universities whose main task is teaching when teaching from the best academics in the world is on the internet for nothing? What will the impact be on international education, Australia’s $14 billion-a-year export earner, when international students can join a MOOC course in their own country? At this early stage no one is sure but there is an almost universal belief that higher education has entered an era of fundamental change. “Clearly the potential is enormous,” says University of Adelaide vice-chancellor Warren Bebbington. “The MOOCs are changing higher education in a way we don’t quite understand yet,” says Margaret Sheil, provost of the University of Melbourne. But she adds that when the best universities in the world are joining in to offer MOOC courses it is important for Melbourne to be part of it.
http://afr.com/p/national/education/free_online_courses_will_change_7ngMdHAbNt5JXJFgLqR79O
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