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Where are MOOCs headed? Not toward massive classes, writes Mike Caulfield. "It's broadly used courseware — software that provides much of the skeleton of standard classes the way publisher texts do today." That's my call as well. He continues, "it's not a new shift, either. It's been quietly happening for quite a long time now. And after all the talk about first tier schools and massive class sizes burn off, we'll be left with questions we've been asking for quite a long time now: What is courseware? What can it do/not do? What are its implications?" I had fun with this web page reloading it and reading the ads for new and improved courseware at the bottom (One of them is pictured above - I thought it was part of the article at first, but it's just some ad network).

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