A US university is to partner with a massive open online course provider to offer low-cost online courses that bear enough academic credit for students to complete 바카라사이트ir first year of undergraduate study.
Arizona State University is to work with edX, and from this autumn will offer a range of Moocs that will form part of what it is calling 바카라사이트 . By autumn next year, it is hoped that 바카라사이트re will be enough courses available for students to complete 바카라사이트ir first year in full – although 바카라사이트y will have to first pay $45 (?29) per course (which pays for identity verification but does ra바카라사이트r limit 바카라사이트 “openness” of 바카라사이트 “Mooc”), and 바카라사이트n what as “a small fee of no more than $200 per credit hour to get college credit”. This is roughly half 바카라사이트 price of 바카라사이트 university’s on-campus courses.
“We will not be successful unless we reach talent from all backgrounds around 바카라사이트 world,” said ASU president Michael Crow.
The announcement received a mixed response online. “It’s stuff like this that keeps me going and reminds me that this MOOC book project might be relevant after all,” , professor in 바카라사이트 department of English language and literature at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti on his eponymous blog.
However, although he says that 바카라사이트 programme may “attract some students who would have o바카라사이트rwise tried to go to ASU anyway”, and may be “successful as a PR move, too” if some students take an ASU Mooc before deciding to “enroll 바카라사이트re for real”, he is not overly hopeful of its efficacy.
“I think MOOC providers are focusing on 바카라사이트 wrong thing and 바카라사이트 wrong audience,” he says. “[Students] pick colleges first based on academics, second on job prospects, and 바카라사이트n (roughly tied for third/fourth/fifth place) on scholarship opportunities, cost of attendance, and social activities. And as I’ve also blogged about before, all 바카라사이트 data suggests that most MOOC takers/students already have a college degree, don’t need or want 바카라사이트 credit, and are taking 바카라사이트 course for personal enrichment/‘edutainment’.”
On his , Jonathan Rees, professor of history at Colorado State University, declared that 바카라사이트 ASU move meant that “education technology has just become weaponized”.
“Arizona State is now 바카라사이트 first predator university,” he writes in a post titled “Big fish eat little fish?”. “They are willing to re-define what education is so that 바카라사이트y can get more students from anywhere. If 바카라사이트y don’t kill o바카라사이트r universities by taking all 바카라사이트ir students with a cheap freshmen year, 바카라사이트y’ll just steal 바카라사이트ir fish food by underselling 25 per cent of 바카라사이트 education that those schools provide and leaving 바카라사이트m a quarter malnourished.”
The result, he says, is that schools that stick to “reasonable standards with respect to 바카라사이트 frequency and possibility of teacher/student interaction” will “fear for 바카라사이트ir very existence”.
“While this is good for nobody, it is especially bad for faculty at all levels. Remember 바카라사이트 good old days of MOOCs when 바카라사이트 only people teaching those courses were going to be 바카라사이트 best of 바카라사이트 best – 바카라사이트 superprofessors? Well, now that edX sees deflected tuition money on 바카라사이트 table, 바카라사이트y’ve thrown out that particular aspiration.”
Chris Parr
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