Dan Butin offers a criticism of the (commercial mass-market) MOOCs. If MIT had done the job right, "MIT would have solved one of the truly difficult issues of higher education—the interlinkage of quality, accessibility, and cost—by giving any student from anywhere the chance to get any set of baseline knowledge and skills they need." But Paul Bruno isn't too concerned. "I haven't actually seen much research indicating that lectures are especially ineffective for learning. Indeed, some researchers have even found that 'traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement' compared to many alternatives," he writes. "Nor do I agree with Butin that it is "sad" that "much of teaching...is highly prescribed and structured".
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