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This is very sad! I for one think that MOOCs have huge potential to disrupt higher education even if it becomes a non-profit at the end.
by dannylandau 10y ago
This is very sad! I for one think that MOOCs have huge potential to disrupt higher education even if it becomes a non-profit at the end.
- bmer 10y agoEven if, or especially if?
- ghaff 10y agoedX is already a non-profit. Which is probably why, notwithstanding pleas to pay for certifications, you still have full access as a free user.
- wolfgke 10y ago> notwithstanding pleas to pay for certifications, you still have full access as a free user. No, just look at the "XSeries" and "Professional Education" programs at edX. These are not free.
- ghaff 10y agoI believe the XSeries are just track certifications for courses you can still take for free. However, the Professional Education programs--which I think are relatively new--do seem to be fee-based only. I stand corrected. Of course, even though it's a non-profit, edX is doubtless still under pressure by its sponsoring institutions to more or less pay its own way. That's a lower bar than "make VCs a bunch of money" but it still can't survive as a bottomless money pit.
- wolfgke 10y ago> I believe the XSeries are just track certifications for courses you can still take for free. I stand partly corrected, but there are also XSeries tracks for courses from Professional Education.
- j45 10y agoThe emancipation of information by MooCs is a big positive. MooC's themselves are not the reason for it, nor do they represent much evolution in how content has been delivered technologically in the last 15 years. Here's to hoping the next, and actual innovative level of cracking the online education innovation is found vs reinventing the technology curriculum of the 90's with WebCT with newer themes.