Nowadays, MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, are very much in the limelight. Even the National University of Singapore (NUS) has announced that they will be offering two online courses in 2014. (See the announcement "NUS to offer free online courses at Coursera".)
However, lately, there has been some concern about the sustainability of such MOOCs.
One such concern is from this news article entitled "Open online courses – an avalanche that might just get stopped".
According to this article, "The bottom line is that there really is no replacement for face-to-face interaction between academics and students. Digital and online methods can enrich those interactions, but it seems unlikely they can replace them in anything other than a greatly impoverished way without the investment of considerable resources. No wonder 72% of those who have taught moocs over the past three years believe students who took their classes had not done sufficient work to deserve credit from their institution."
Nowadays, MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, are very much in the limelight. Even the National University of Singapore (NUS) has announced that they will be offering two online courses in 2014. (See the announcement "NUS to offer free online courses at Coursera".)However, lately, there has been some concern about the sustainability of such MOOCs.
One such concern is from this news article entitled "Open online courses – an avalanche that might just get stopped".
According to this article, "The bottom line is that there really is no replacement for face-to-face interaction between academics and students. Digital and online methods can enrich those interactions, but it seems unlikely they can replace them in anything other than a greatly impoverished way without the investment of considerable resources. No wonder 72% of those who have taught moocs over the past three years believe students who took their classes had not done sufficient work to deserve credit from their institution."
However, lately, there has been some concern about the sustainability of such MOOCs.
One such concern is from this news article entitled "Open online courses – an avalanche that might just get stopped".
According to this article, "The bottom line is that there really is no replacement for face-to-face interaction between academics and students. Digital and online methods can enrich those interactions, but it seems unlikely they can replace them in anything other than a greatly impoverished way without the investment of considerable resources. No wonder 72% of those who have taught moocs over the past three years believe students who took their classes had not done sufficient work to deserve credit from their institution."
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