week 13: MOOCS – How do we perceive knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge?

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Educational analysts (Bates; Watters) demonstrate that MOOCs development is both a promising movement towards democratizing education and a critically unsustainable technological fad played by the ivy league universities. Having a unified platform for MOOCs makes very different courses look the same to the detriment of learning experience. What do you think about the perspectives of MOOC? I believe that the notion of the MOOC being a “disruptive innovation” is interesting, as I believe any innovation to any field (education or otherwise) has the potential to be disruptive. Changing the trajectory…read more