Intro to Debates in Higher Education

MOOCs and Disruptive Higher Education

This week’s readings explored the potential impact of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and their potential to create “next-generation universtities” by lowering costs, making higher education more accessible, and serving as a disruptive force in the market of…

MOOCs, Face-to-Face Courses, and Market Equivalency

Cameron Hecht; Weekly Blog Post; Due: 12/1/2014 @ 9am

A major topic in this week’s readings was the role of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in the future of education. While many have praised MOOCs for being…

Reaction Blog for EPS 518: Debates about Innovation and Disruption

by Valerie Crespin-Trujillo: December 1, 2014

Colleges and universities are not generally viewed as a sector of our society that is easy to change, but maybe this hesitancy to move in a new…

More evidence needed before universities adopt MOOCs

It’s tough for those in Silicon Valley to hear, but we need to slow MOOCs down. There is, of course, a tremendous amount of promise involved, but universities need to fully evaluate why they are participating in the growing trend of…

MOOCs

Prior to the readings I have heard of MOOCs, however as a student studying higher education/student affairs it should come as no surprise that they were looked down on. Specifically, the lack of one-on-one, interpersonal interactions was not viewed as having the ability to provide a well-rounded, quality education…

Our hands are not tied

One thing that really struck a chord with me this week was a point made by Michael Crow. There is an intimate link between K12 education and higher education. As much as higher education can (and often does) point fingers at K12 education and complain about underprepared students…

Innovation and Disruption

The articles I read this week dealt with debates surrounding innovation and disruption in higher education. What I found interesting about this week’s readings were the arguments surrounding massive online open courses, otherwise known as MOOC’s. The idea is that universities, such…

12/1/14 Blog

In Morris and Stommel’s article, “MOOCagogy: Assessment, Networked Learning, and the Meta-MOOC,” the authors contend that “A course, then, is a container for people and not content ­ — a gathering place, a laboratory, that is intensely and necessarily social” (Morris and Stommel). Although I see the…