by Peter Stanford, the Telegraph
Will students of the future sit at home and learn off their laptop? “I think,” replies Boaler, “you have to weigh up the whole rounded experience of going to university – including the social side, the connections. That would be lost if we moved to a wholly Mooc-based system. “So this won’t be the end of universities, – but it may just be the end of universities that are doing a bad job. A high-quality, innovative Mooc by someone who really knows what they are talking about is going to be better than low-quality face-to-face teaching.”
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