Robert McGuire, the man behind MOOC News and Reviews, has a new gig running the blog for SkilledUp, one of the MOOC aggregators trying to bring order to the growing and increasingly chaotic field of online education (free or otherwise). In a recent feature-length story, McGuire takes a look at some of the controversies surrounding […]
Clayton Christensen on MOOC Disruption
An important article written by Clayton Christensen and Michelle Weise appeared in yesterday’s Boston Globe that relates both to MOOCs (still the primary subject of this blog) and the Monday series I’ve been running lately on how MOOCs and other forms of free learning might provide today’s (or, more likely tomorrow’s) students options other than […]
Hogwarts is Here! – MOOC from Other Worlds
Tomorrow morning, I plan to record an interview with Russell Beale, one of the people behind the MOOC provider FutureLearn, a platform launched by Britain’s venerable Open University (the world’s oldest and still largest distance-education institution). A quick scan of their site demonstrates the success FutureLearn has had drawing in well-known British institutions such as […]
What’s the Most College Should Cost?
In last week’s newsletter, I discussed some of the $10,000 BA programs that emerged after Texas Governor Rick Perry challenged the state’s college systems to come up with options that would allow students to graduate with a degree at that price point. As I noted then, this $10,000 degree concept is not about taking an […]
Udacity Certificates – Another Pivot
Udacity sort of fell off the MOOC radar once they announced a change in plans to focus more on professional training than the total transformation of what it means to attend college. Initially, this re-orientation was greeted as an admission by the company that got the current MOOC ball rolling that massive open courses would […]
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