The Financial Times profiled Sharon Watkins, a MOOC learner who created a community study group:
…10 adults – two men and eight women – signed up to study part one of Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, by the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business.
The majority of the class were on a low or fixed income and aged between 45 to 55. One had a doctorate, one a BA and a few others had some coursework at an associate degree level, but most had never completed a postsecondary degree. Continue reading…
The article continues with Ms. Watkins sharing her experience as a MOOC-group leader, and the next steps of those who passed the course.
Article says good things about MOOC.
Now everybody will start saying ” my God MOOC is good ”
It is all wrong. Investigate. One example is not enough.
I decided MOOCs are not good but
http://www.edx.org set up by MIT and Harvard is good.
They are non profit , they provide the same courses as oncampus courses.
I wish they provide degrees too .
But then many colleges will be closed ???????