(Downes, 2011).
This interactive presentation will discuss the challenges and opportunities that MOOCs present to “for-profit education.” Is self-paced learning truly successful? What is the success rate for students registered in such courses? Do MOOCs signal a trend in higher education away from degree programs requiring students to pay tuition, to the accessibility of free resources that provide proof of completion and mastery of content as being the requisite outcome necessary in today’s workplace? Will the greater transparency provided by the web, lead to greater accountability of individuals, organizations, and business practices? If the human race is to survive and thrive, accountability needs to infuse every human endeavor–from that of the individual, to nations, and to the world, at large.
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Downes, Stephen “‘Connectivism’ and Connective Knowledge”, Huffpost Education, January 5, 2011, accessed July 27, 2011
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Rathi Krishnan has an MA in Comparative Literature from Bangalore University, India, another MA in English from Cal State University, Long Beach, as well as doctoral coursework in English from University of California, Riverside, before she dropped out, and began to ponder on the meaning of education, education that is self-taught versus formal education. She has taught at several California community colleges, Cal State University, Long Beach, NYU, several online universities, and is currently a full time professor at Kaplan University. Her quest is to provide quality education to her students, as well as to contemplate the bigger picture of what education entails and affords for each one of us in our quest for self-discovery and in fulfillment of our goals, dreams, and ambitions. She lives in the San Francisco, Bay Area and as online teaching allows her to travel widely, considers herself to be a resident of “nowhere” and a denizen of “everywhere,” a state made possible in this internet era.A recording of this presentation is available.
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