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17 mars 2013

100,000-student classroom next big thing

Winnipeg Free PressBy Elliot King and Neil Alperstein. The debate about massively open online courses, or MOOCs, has reached such a fevered pitch that we recently got to witness an internecine argument about it at the New York Times.
On one side was the technology-optimist columnist Thomas Friedman, who imagines a time when students in a remote village in Egypt could install a couple of computers with high-speed Internet access, hire a local facilitator and study with the best professors in the world.
On the other side, the Times editorial board felt compelled to point out that most online courses are pretty dreadful, with high dropout rates and poor learning outcomes.
Of course, online education and its first incarnation, distance learning, have been around for a long time. MOOCs have leapt onto the front pages because of their scale -- 10,000, 100,000, 200,000 students -- and the name-brand schools involved. Students can study with M.I.T. professors. Wow. As exciting as that may sound, the shortcomings and challenges have also been well known for years. Read more...
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