Robert Purdon's List: CIS 120Final Exam

• With the expansion, EdX will offer courses from 11 colleges and universities as well as the University of Texas system.
• The twin expansions reflect a surge of interest from around the world in what are known as massive open online courses, or MOOCs.

• By providing free access to anyone with an Internet connection, MOOCs facilitate the dissemination of knowledge to unprecedented numbers of people.
• Nor have universities crafted a viable business model for MOOCs.  Udacity gets some revenue from corporations, including Google, for developing high-level, specialized courses. 
• We wonder as well, with our tongues halfway in our cheeks, whether seventeen-year-olds will want to spend four years, or three, or even two living with mom and dad and staring at a computer screen.

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• They still must overcome some skepticism about the quality of online education and the prospects for having the courses cover the costs of producing them, but their enthusiasm is undimmed.
• harder to attract students willing to pay $20,000, $40,000 or even $60,000 a year for the traditional on-campus experience.
• free courses
• MOOCs
• “We think this approach can cut costs by about 25 percent,” he said, “enabling each professor to work with more students, while producing a clear improvement in learning outcomes.”
• 160,000 students.
• In May, Harvard teamed with M.I.T. to create a similar venture, edX.

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