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  1. And just wait, one day BU and other universities will find a way to monetize online learning, convincing students that it’s ‘better,’ and allowing BU to further reduce those pesky overhead costs of one lecturer limited to, on average, say 100 or so students.

    我能看到行政人员在舔他们的公司财务表格。 Now stick in an underpaid, exploited adjunct, and we can give BU’s president a juicy raise over the appalling salary he already earns.

  2. 瑞安,

    I’ve only seen a few brief clips of MOOCs myself, but the instructors teaching them seemed like passionate and knowledgeable teachers…I’m sure there are/will be crappy ones, but we can say the same thing about standard in-person teachers. In principle, why can’t MOOCs be as good or better than conventional pedagogy? 也许你可以多说一下你担心的是什么。

    To me, the arrival of MOOCs isn’t the problem. 问题在于教育的货币化,以及在竞争过度的就业市场上资历主义的抬头。 我也认为大学教育的目的是不明确的,无论是对一些在大学工作的人,还是对一般公众。 You’ll get a different answer to “What is university for?” depending on who you’re asking, and this ambiguity of purpose is part of the problem. 我们应该集中精力解决这些问题。 But it’s a mistake to think that MOOCs are the problem here. 在线学习只是为同样的问题提供了另一种表达自己的媒介。

  3. 我刚刚花了6.5万美元获得了一个完全在线的高级学位。 十个教官中有九个是优秀的。 The key to the success of online classes is no different than “sittin’ in the room wid you” classes: if the instructor is excellent, and engaged, the class will be excellent and engaging. It really doesn’t matter how the communication is effected as long as the communication happens and there always has to be one on one with students and instructors regarding work submitted. 如果使用分数,必须反映所提交的内容。 如果证书是最终目标,那么这些课程已经货币化了。 拥有一个教育继续免费的系统只会让整个世界变得更美好。 The adjustment toward education (having useful knowledge) vs credentials (having a piece of paper that “Says” you have useful knowledge) will happen eventually, and turmoil will ensue until then. 在线教育的“碳足迹”怎么说都不为过:不开车、不停车、不占用教室空间、不租房间。 我最大的观点是,教室空间和证书的市场不同于MOOC和付费在线学生的市场。 这是一个完全不同的市场,一个巨大的市场,学者们有必要了解他们是谁,他们需要什么。 It can only be good for an institution to be offering high quality “education” in an online format: good for their “Brand,” good for their environment, and good for the world to have so many more well educated humans who will appreciate being educated. Are institutions like Harvard able to fit their foggy old heads around an asynchronous classroom without seeing it as a threat, probably not…and the world will leave them behind as a result. 麦克·约翰逊(Mac约翰逊),美国职业足球大联盟(MLS),德克萨斯州休斯顿的MFA。

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