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The accreditation issue can't be tackled until you build high-quality courses in traditional subjects. That's what many of these sites don't get. You need to lo

The accreditation issue can't be tackled until you build high-quality courses in traditional subjects. That's what many of these sites don't get. You need to look at what traditional university is offering THEN REPLACE IT WITH SOMETHING BETTER. Physics 101 and chem 101 are still important and people need to learn these subjects. You can't just build a new "university" and then just have a bunch of buzz word named courses. Until that happens, none of these MOOCs will obtain accreditation from any accreditation organization that is worthwhile. The quality offered by current MOOCs simply do not compare to what you learn from traditional university.

barry-cotter 8y ago
https://www.edx.org/masters https://www.edx.org/masters I count eight Master’s degrees. I’m sure you’ll agree Georgia Tech is an excellent university. https://www.coursera.org/degrees https://www.coursera.org/degrees Ten Master’s degrees including Computer Science from UIUC and a Bachelor’s. As far as accreditation or doing something better than a traditional university look to lambdaschool.com Zero to employment ready software engineer in eight months, not ready to be an intern, not well, we’re desperate we can train you, but solidly capable of most front end jobs, decent coverage of algorithms, data structures and basic computer science. They’re not MOOC as they’re neither massive nor open but they may be transformative.
- anonymous5133 8y ago
  $20,000 masters degrees isn't what I have in mind, sorry. That's just more of the same old same old. Nothing innovative about that. The whole point of MOOCs is to delivery high-quality courses for free. If there is some sort of fee type system then it has to be affordable for everyone, even for people in places like rural India.
  - dragonwriter 8y ago
    > The whole point of MOOCs is to delivery high-quality courses for free. No, it's not.
    - anonymous5133 8y ago
      It might not be to you, but it is to me. MOOCs is about demolishing the ivory tower of education privilege and making high-quality education accessible to all, for free. Also when I say free, I mean free as in not funded by the government type of free.
      - dragonwriter 8y ago
        > It might not be to you, but it is to me. It doesn't seem to be for the people that are running MOOC platforms, either. > MOOCs is about demolishing the ivory tower of education privilege and making high-quality education accessible to all, for free. It may be defensible to say that MOOCs are about lowering economic barriers to accessing education, but free isn't the goal (most platforms were purely free initially to establish mindshare, but that's a promotional expense not a sustainable business model.) Those that have retained a free option seem to have it largely as a tool for promoting paid certificate/credentialing programs.

barry-cotter 8y ago

https://www.edx.org/masters https://www.edx.org/masters I count eight Master’s degrees. I’m sure you’ll agree Georgia Tech is an excellent university. https://www.coursera.org/degrees https://www.coursera.org/degrees Ten Master’s degrees including Computer Science from UIUC and a Bachelor’s. As far as accreditation or doing something better than a traditional university look to lambdaschool.com Zero to employment ready software engineer in eight months, not ready to be an intern, not well, we’re desperate we can train you, but solidly capable of most front end jobs, decent coverage of algorithms, data structures and basic computer science. They’re not MOOC as they’re neither massive nor open but they may be transformative.

anonymous5133 8y ago
$20,000 masters degrees isn't what I have in mind, sorry. That's just more of the same old same old. Nothing innovative about that. The whole point of MOOCs is to delivery high-quality courses for free. If there is some sort of fee type system then it has to be affordable for everyone, even for people in places like rural India.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > The whole point of MOOCs is to delivery high-quality courses for free. No, it's not.
  - anonymous5133 8y ago
    It might not be to you, but it is to me. MOOCs is about demolishing the ivory tower of education privilege and making high-quality education accessible to all, for free. Also when I say free, I mean free as in not funded by the government type of free.
    - dragonwriter 8y ago
      > It might not be to you, but it is to me. It doesn't seem to be for the people that are running MOOC platforms, either. > MOOCs is about demolishing the ivory tower of education privilege and making high-quality education accessible to all, for free. It may be defensible to say that MOOCs are about lowering economic barriers to accessing education, but free isn't the goal (most platforms were purely free initially to establish mindshare, but that's a promotional expense not a sustainable business model.) Those that have retained a free option seem to have it largely as a tool for promoting paid certificate/credentialing programs.