Beware Of The Great MOOC Bait-And-Switch
Derek Newton,
Forbes,
Nov 20, 2018
If you just go by what the large U.S.-based institutions and companies are doing, which is what this article does, then MOOCs look like a scam. "MOOCs are now the free ice cream, the bait in the trap and, as such, it's normal to wonder what they're really worth even if they're free." But outside the bastion, MOOCs are doing what they were intended to do: provide free learning resources to millions of people. This week alone I'm looking K-MOOCs in Korea (see here) and the KOOL system in Kerala (see here). It's the stark contrast between the world according to Forbes and the world according to the rest of us. (Note, as always, with Forbes, there's a spamwall, which I disable with Ublock Origin; there's also popup video - scroll down, scroll up, scroll down again and the 'close window' (X) appears above the video so you can shut it down).
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