Will the future of Education be Online, Open and Massive?

By Adrien Basdevant. A massive shift is occurring in education. We have gone from analog to digital, from isolated to connected, from standardized to customized, from fixed to mobile. This not only changing the world, but has lead to the emergence of the online education, which is claimed to be $60 billion industry.
At least that is what the buzz around Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, seems to tell us. MOOCs are forms of online learning that offer high quality education that is free and open to the public. One of the first examples was the Stanford Artificial Intelligence (AI) class taught in October 2011 with 160, 000 students that enrolled. Since then, the quantity of startups and projects has flourished bringing along with them many hopes and doubts. Read more...