Moocs are free – but for how much longer?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Moocs are free – but for how much longer?
Chris Parr, Times Higher Education, 2014/09/02
You can't just say “Moocs have started out as a free opportunity – and free is a great way to get people interested,” as Stanford's John Mitchell does. MOOC means free. If academia wants to charge tuition for instruction, I won't complain, since academia has been doing that for 2,500 years. More...