by Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
As is often the case at technology-related conferences, predictions of fast and “sweeping” change in higher education were rampant. But so, too, was there a good bit of nuance, and some thoughtfulness about what won’t (and shouldn’t) change. And there was fairly broad-scale agreement that MOOCs and other technology-enabled education will be truly transformative in higher education only at the point that they give educators the tools to do two things: (1) expand access to the low-income students who are disproportionately excluded from today’s higher education system, and (2) provide instruction that is more targeted to an individual’s educational needs — a goal, several argued, that might ironically be achieved sooner precisely because technology enables education to be delivered to so many students at one time. Even those who don’t think MOOCs will transform the face of higher education acknowledged the extent to which they had changed the conversation about online education in a fundamental way.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/14/assessing-moocs-higheredtech-conference
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