{"id":8179,"date":"2012-11-10T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T20:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8179"},"modified":"2012-11-10T18:26:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T00:26:06","slug":"coursera-edx-and-moocs-are-changing-the-online-education-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8179","title":{"rendered":"Coursera, edX, and MOOCs Are Changing the Online Education Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Online education isn\u2019t new\u2014in the United States more than 700,000 students now study in full-time &#8220;distance learning&#8221; programs. What\u2019s different is the scale of technology being applied by leaders who mix high-minded goals with sharp-elbowed, low-priced Internet business models. In the stories that will follow in this month\u2019s business report, <em>MIT Technology Review <\/em>will chart the impact of free online education, particularly the <strong>\u201cmassive open online courses,\u201d or MOOCs,<\/strong> offered by new education ventures like <strong>edX, Coursera, and Udacity<\/strong>, to name the most prominent (see \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/featuredstory\/429376\/the-crisis-in-higher-education\/\">The Crisis in Higher Education<\/a>\u201d).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/506351\/the-most-important-education-technology-in-200-years\/\">Coursera, edX, and MOOCs Are Changing the Online Education Business | MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will they succeed and create something truly different? If they do, we\u2019ll have the answer to our question: online learning will be the most important innovation in education in the last 200 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vivekhaldar.com\/post\/35362245409\/moocs-will-eat-academia\">MOOCs will eat academia<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MOOCs will al\u00admost cer\u00adtainly hol\u00adlow out the teach\u00ading com\u00adpo\u00adnent of uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties as it stands today. I don\u2019t see any\u00adthing on the hori\u00adzon that will re\u00adverse this tide. In most tech\u00adni\u00adcal fields, the nuts and bolts tech\u00adni\u00adcal in\u00adter\u00adview and on-the-job learn\u00ading and per\u00adfor\u00admance mon\u00adi\u00adtor\u00ading long ago re\u00adplaced any faith in de\u00adgrees as cre\u00adden\u00adtials. That leaves very few fields, such as law, where you ab\u00adsolutely do need the de\u00adgree as a cre\u00adden\u00adtial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online education isn\u2019t new\u2014in the United States more than 700,000 students now study in full-time &#8220;distance learning&#8221; programs. What\u2019s different is the scale of technology being applied by leaders who mix high-minded goals with sharp-elbowed, low-priced Internet business models. In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[367,387,968],"class_list":["post-8179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-education","tag-mit","tag-mooc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8193,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions\/8193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}