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• 25 Jul 12
  

  Rita Kop

  MOOC

• 23 Jul 12
  

  Kristina Hollis

  Smiling at this rant against #MOOCS "Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads" http://t.co/xOJhJ3OY

  MOOCS

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  June Breivik

  Better criticism of MOOC hype than NYT: http://t.co/cuY97vWm (@swarthmoreburke) & http://t.co/al2XujR5 (@jimgroom)

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  Mark Smithers

  Smiling at this rant against #MOOCS "Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads" http://t.co/xOJhJ3OY

  via:packrati.us MOOCS

• 22 Jul 12
  

  Matt Landahl

  Better criticism of MOOC hype than NYT: http://t.co/cuY97vWm (@swarthmoreburke) & http://t.co/al2XujR5 (@jimgroom)

• 21 Jul 12
  

  Todd Suomela

  I hereby volunteer: the next pundit who talks about how MOOCs are going to save higher education some big bucks needs to meet me for drinks at the establishment of his or her choosing, I’ll foot the bill, and in return I just ask for the chance to politely and rationally CHEW THEIR FUCKING EARS OFF.

  mooc education digital future reform money cost infrastructure

  • If you want to talk about savings, those are two big areas: platforms and products that could be hacked out cheaply if only faculty and staff user communities were as flexible and adaptable and mildly literate about information technology as everyone else in the world and were therefore also universally pressuring for open-access publishing created and maintained by truly massive consortia of higher education institutions.
  • Again, pundits, let’s talk. MOOCs are damn interesting, you betcha, but seriously, if you think they’re about to solve the labor-intensivity of higher education tomorrow with no losses or costs in quality, you have a lot of learning to do. Not just about the costs and budgets of higher education today, but about the history of distance learning. Right now you guys sound like the same packs of enthusiastic dunderheads who thought that public-access television, national radio networks, or correspondence courses were going to make conventional universities obsolete via technological magic. And hey, if you’re that keen on the digital, skip the drinks, I’m happy to educate you via email.

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