Jury’s Still Out on the MOOC Model

By Jon Erickson. MOOCs offer a number of potential benefits. Once developed and delivered at scale, the MOOC model is a much less labor-intensive approach to college education. MOOCs enable professors to spread their knowledge to vastly larger audiences, requiring fewer faculty than the traditional model. That can help alleviate instructional needs that will be created by the impending wave of faculty retirements as well as reduce the rising costs of a college education.
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