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I think MOOCs (Massively Online Open Courses) are massively overhyped by university administrators who ignorantly fantasize that this will make for cheaper universities with more compliant academics. Doing MOOCs well in fact costs a fortune–far more than the per student cost of a good lecturer–because it costs serious programming dollars to do MOOCs well. That ...
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I think MOOCs (Massively Online Open Courses) are massively overhyped by university administrators who ignorantly fantasize that this will make for cheaper universities with more compliant academics. Doing MOOCs well in fact costs a fortune–far more than the per student cost of a good lecturer–because it costs serious programming dollars to do MOOCs well. That ...
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