Online Learning Update

July 5, 2013

Massive open online courses – threat or opportunity?

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

by the BBC

When the internet hits an industry the result is usually pretty dramatic. Newcomers with revolutionary business models blow away the old established players. Think what happened to Kodak when photography went digital, what happened to high street book shops when Amazon got going. Now it is the turn of higher education, and not even the cleverest professors can say for sure how this is going to play out. Right now this change is focused on the Mooc – shorthand for massive open online courses. The technology that allows one professor to teach not just one student but 100,000 really changes the economics of higher education”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23069542

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