Yesterday, I found “It’s Time To Admit College Is Driven By Speculation — Not Investment” and the other was “Is The End Near for Public Education…?” from LinkedIn Pulse in my inbox. The claims by both seem overstated, but are they wrong? I believe they both can’t be completely right, yet to ignore their arguments would be folly.
Recently I had a bit of a debate with a coworker who said that the Stanford MOOCs have been a failure. While her point was more about why she didn’t think online education alone is good for our students with Highlands Community Charter School, which I don’t disagree with, I do disagree that we can judge MOOCs as a failure yet; especially the most open of them, such as the original Stanford MOOCs.