June 11, 2012
How Will MOOCs Make Money?
Steve Kolowich,
Inside Higher Ed, June 11, 2012.
Interesting examination of how MOOC providers might make money. Suggestions range from using MOOCs to generate leads for education services, for matchmaking students with potential employers, premium content, robust assessment, and the like. I think that in the beginning especially strong revenues will be found from companies and institutions wanting to educate people in a certain way. The existing system of higher education is a major subsidy for business and industry, and as governments pull back, they will have to replace it.
The Real Tsunami
William G. Durden,
Inside Higher Ed, June 11, 2012.
The big tsunami, according to William G. Durden: "imagine that a highly respected, unassailable institution or set of institutions offers a set of completion exams at the bachelor’s level to anyone everywhere, anywhere, anytime... Imagine the moment when these completion exams permit a person to assemble learning from a variety of academic institutions and life experiences to complete a degree." Imagine, in other words, the end of the existing monopoly based on credentialing. It's going to happen.
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Just A Man Ironing A Shirt
Random,
YouTube, June 9, 2012.
There is a simple elegance to this video. And it is an effective illustration of the idea of achieving perfection in whatever you do.
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