What is the value of HRSU (Highly Regarded State University) in a MOOC world?  What value do we bring to learning when it’s all out there?

Barriers?  It’s all about RISK (and change) – financial, pedogogical, faculty engagement/time, public perceptions, institutional culture…. the list is endless.

If I have an employee that’s completed a MOOC, how do I know she/he learned anything?  (A cynic would say the same thing about how we award grades in traditional courses 🙂 but it’s a bigger issue with MOOCs.)

Why do we all teach an introductory course in Statics or Physics or Calculus (or Econ, Psychology, Biology, etc.)?  Why not get the best teachers in the country/world to teach them as a MOOC – the content is amazingly similar across all our institutions.  We could focus our courses on those things in these areas that we want to tailor or extend t…[Read more]

At this point, there is value in getting your feet wet – experimenting and getting experience.  But is jumping in with both feet worth it?

MOOCs seem to be a good fit with the “land grant mission” – educating the “masses.”  This is just a new tool with which to do it.

Change value to universities to add faculty

1) Grow enrollment, lower cost, lower tuition

1) What defines a best practice re MOOCS?

2) Convince faculty of value

3) All innovation has cost implications

1)  Will have value to both students and employers to allow via distance.

2) Ask question to employees “How are you moving career forward”  MOOC’s can be one answered.

3) Must trust that continued trials will allow challenges to be overcome