Monday, June 03, 2013

Good column on the future of online education

I enjoyed Andy Kessler's column Professors Are About to Get an Online Education.  He writes about some of the recent experiments in the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).  There has been a lot of push back because MOOCs threaten teacher's livelihood.  Andy makes a great point:

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I was upbraided for not understanding the plight of teachers. The plight of students, as is too often the case in discussions of education, didn't seem to rate the same concern.
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If you are interested in the future of MOOCs the column is worth reading.

Hat tip: Instapundit

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