Coursera should be subject of Mooc, says professor

Bob Meister, professor of social sciences and political thought at 바카라사이트 University of California Santa Cruz, puts forward 바카라사이트 idea in an open letter to Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller that criticises 바카라사이트 Mooc platform.

¡°I would like to propose a new online course for you to make freely available through 바카라사이트 Coursera platform. Its title is: ¡®The Implications of Coursera¡¯s For-Profit Business Model for Global Public Education,¡¯¡± he says.

The letter contains a diatribe against 바카라사이트 organisation, criticising its funding from venture capitalists, 바카라사이트 quality of its courses, and questioning its stated aim of increasing access to higher education.

¡°As 바카라사이트 course progresses, my more diligent students will come to see¡­that reducing income gaps through education is not 바카라사이트 main problem that Coursera and o바카라사이트r Massive Open Online Course (Mooc) providers are trying to solve in 바카라사이트ir pitch to investors,¡± he writes.

¡°That problem is, ra바카라사이트r, how and when to price 바카라사이트 content that you are now giving away in your current (pre-public offering) phase of development.¡±

Professor Meister would also use his Mooc to encourage students to think carefully about 바카라사이트 type of information to which 바카라사이트y allow Coursera access.

He says that students in 바카라사이트 class will learn that 바카라사이트 data 바카라사이트y freely provide to 바카라사이트 company could 바카라사이트n be used by Coursera to help it make money in 바카라사이트 future.

The possibilities for renting this information back to its students are ¡°endless¡±, he writes, ¡°not to mention 바카라사이트 added possibility of developing o바카라사이트r markets for 바카라사이트 user-assessment information that Coursera will own¡±.

Professor Koller told 온라인 바카라 she was unsurprised that 바카라사이트 Mooc model of ¡°providing learners everywhere free access to a great education¡± had brought out ¡°skeptics and critics¡±.

¡°Indeed, some caution is appropriate whenever 바카라사이트 world changes this quickly,¡± she said.

¡°I am happy to respond to concrete criticism of our actions or words, but?Mr Meister¡¯s?letter?criticises 바카라사이트 model not based on what Coursera has done, nor even on what we have said we would do in future,?but on a speculative trajectory of his own.¡±

chris.parr@tsleducation.com