Will COVID-19 Lead to Another MOOC Moment?
Jeffrey R. Young,
EdSurge,
Mar 25, 2020
The answer to the question is "yes", because if you actually want to educate people, then you remove the price tag. And it's "yes" because we're actually seeing this renewed interest. "Dhawal Shah, founder of Class Central, a site that serves as a directory of MOOCs, says he's seen a sudden spike in traffic to his site... One day last week, for instance, he received more traffic to the Class Central site than he did over the entire month of February. 'I know what viral means, but this is on a different scale,' he said." Charles Severance agrees. "We haven't even begun to hit our stride on how amazing these MOOCs can be," Severance argues. "We're a quarter of the way in on the MOOC marathon, and we can't run anymore." In another article, we see reports of record numbers at OU's FutureLearn.
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