by Andrew McGettigan, the Guardian
The British Museum, British Council, British Library and 21 UK universities have now joined what they hope is a higher education revolution – giving the public access to the world’s top institutions and their best academics. They have entered into partnership with FutureLearn, a company owned by Open University that will be launched in September as the UK’s “first free, open, online platform” for higher-level short courses. It aims to be the home-grown rival to similar platforms emanating from the US such as Coursera, Udacity and the not-for-profit edX. Such platforms offer “Moocs” – massive, open, online courses: a free or low-cost alternative to traditional higher education that, say the evangelists, will roll out elite education across the world.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/12/moocs-scourge-saviour-higher-education
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