Online Learning Update

December 25, 2012

Massive Open Online Courses Meet Higher Ed

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

By Ellis Booker, InformationWeek

Can a class contain 100,000 Internet-connected students? Can grading be crowdsourced? Will colleges and universities someday confer certifications on students who’ve never stepped foot on campus, never interacted with a live teacher and never paid a dime? These are just some of the existential questions confronting academia thanks to massive open online courses, or MOOCs. MOOCs are distinguished as much by their network- and computer-mediated scale as their free-for-all philosophy.

http://www.informationweek.com/massive-open-online-courses-meet-higher/240145137

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