All of which is true, Owen, but I'm afraid you're making the natural mistake of extrapolating from your own interests, experiences, and high capabilities. The people like you and others on this list are in the world at large a set of measure zero, albeit a set we don't want to neglect or fail to nurture, and MOOCs are a way for an exceptionally bright rather poor kid in Pakistan to educate herself or himself. The vast majority of US college students do not have the discipline and burning desire to know that may be required to succeed in distance learning.
Bruce On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not surprised MOOCs have a high dropout rate: they're designed that > way. You sign up for 2-3 of them and stay in the one you like most. > > MOOCs are likely to have a great impact on the firewalled papers problem > (JSTOR etc) by providing enough clout to build their own open repositories. > > And even tho MOOCs are the buzz now, there is also a lot on sites like > Kahn Academy which are not courses in the usual sense but a learn on your > own pace site. In its own way, it may be even more revolutionary and one > of the heros of the JSEverywhere revolution has gotten involved (John > Reisig https://github.com/jeresig). John's work is likely to have a huge > effect on the actual course-ware world. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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