What Price MOOCs?
Donald H. Taylor,
Weblog,
Dec 02, 2012
"One topic has received less notice," says Donald H. Taylor, "How will MOOCs be made to pay?" We could simply invest the same public resources into offering free learning at all levels online that we currently expend in the traditional system, but still there persists this idea that MOOCs, somehow, must make money. Taylor's response is, "Freemium model surely?" In other words, the basic service is free, but premium extras are offered for those willing to pay extra money (in Canada, we call that "two tier"). There is no question the concept is becoming a gamechanger. "In a few years' time you may be asked to justify your training course against one provided by Harvard, by a local college in Hyderabad and by an online training company in Singapore."
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