I had a post a few weeks ago riffing on an article in the Chronicle about the the blossoming of online universities. And earlier this week the NY Times ran one about MOOCs (massive open online courses) also. It seems they are working through some of the business models and assessment concerns in short-order.
I think this phenomenon represents another one of the those leap-frog jumps that will soon leave our secondary school forest-for-the-trees arguments about ebooks vs. books, length of school day, and 40 week/seat-time in the lurch. It seems to cultivate the ides of learning for learning's sake more than our ends-over-means, lock-step, accountability-laden methods of late.
Democratic learning opportunities for a democracy. Seems like something we should embrace.
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