Dear Commons Community,

The New York Times has a good recap of the current debates on MOOCs that are going on at college campuses.  Many of the issues reviewed such as shared governance, tiering of higher education, intellectual property, and corporate influences have been posted on this blog and elsewhere but if you want to catch up on the discussion, this article identifies several important developments.    For me the most important point in the article was the conclusion:

“All three of the leading MOOC providers — Coursera, edX and Udacity, another Stanford spinoff — started by offering courses free but with no credit, attracting millions of learners around the world. But all three are now adapting those courses, often in blended form, for use in public universities that will offer students credit and extra support — and bring the MOOC providers a steady revenue stream.”

My opinion early on has been that the only way MOOCs could be implemented into the mainstream of higher education was by adopting the blended model.

Tony