MOOCs Proliferate Despite Unanswered Questions

By Ellis Booker. Universities investing in massive open online courses face an uncertain payoff.
Massive open online courses are proliferating, despite the many unanswered questions about how they will pay off for their creators.
According to a curated list compiled by TechnoDuet, there are nearly 40 MOOC providers worldwide today.
Another resource documenting this growth is the MOOC Map, an interactive visualization showing the geographic spread of MOOCs from six providers (Coursera, Instructure, Blackboard, edX, FutureLearn and Open2Study).
The fastest-growing purveyor, Coursera, now claims 4 million students across four continents and 83 college partners. Read more...