A broader impact of MOOCs

“Many people were worried that MOOCs might replace the university, but what we are finding is that MOOCs will not replace university, they will improve university,” says edX CEO Anant Agarwal during his visit to Delft.
“The view of MOOCs has changed in the last two years. Now it is more realistic, but still very exciting. It is still the biggest change in education in hundreds of years,” says edX CEO Anant Agarwal to ScienceGuide during his visited to Technical University Delft for the third edX board meeting.
“When we started edX in November 2011, we explained that we were looking to improve three things. First we wanted to improve the access to education around the world. We wanted to improve campus-education and we wanted to do research in how students learn.” More...