MOOCs: What's YOUR audience?
Since I returned from vacation I've been catching up on news that happened while I was away, and listening to podcasts from May that I had downloaded to take with me to listen to, but due to the hustle and bustle of vacation, I ended up not listening to anything I downloaded. I was listening to a podcast from NPR's education feed when they were reporting on MOOCs and certain school's apprehension toward them. The first thing, right out of the gate, is that somehow MOOCs and Online Education have become synonymous. While MOOCs are a subset of Online Education, I wouldn't equate one with the other. That said, I put my skepticism aside and listened on. The first thing that came up, from the critics, was that MOOCs wouldn't be able to replace learning that happens in undergraduate courses, especially those in the 100 level, because students come to college under-prepared, so they don't necessarily know how to learn, in other words they don't have good st...