Balance sheet on MOOCs: Myth, hype and potential

Authors

  • Cathy SANDEEN University of Wisconsin Colleges and University of Wisconsin Extension

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24112/ajsotl.53319

Abstract

More than three years have passed since The New York Times declared 2012 the “Year of the MOOC” (Pappano, 2012), a declaration that, looking back, served as an exclamation point after an intense period of media coverage about a new form of online education, one that could reach global masses at a scale previously only imagined. Would this innovation change global higher education as we know it? Would massive open online courses solve problems of affordability, access, and degree attainment? Would we lose important and time-tested qualities of higher education by allowing MOOCs to standardize and commoditize the educational process? (Abstract taken from first paragraph of document)

Downloads

Published

2015-03-01

How to Cite

SANDEEN, C. (2015). Balance sheet on MOOCs: Myth, hype and potential. Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 5(1), 9–22. https://doi.org/10.24112/ajsotl.53319

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Commentary

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and not used for commercial purposes. Copyright on any article is retained by the author(s) and the publisher(s).