Dear Commons Community,

Janey Flanagan (BMCC), a doctoral student in our Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, alerted us to an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, An Early Report Card on Massive Open Online Courses.   She posted: ”“I thought it provided a fairly objective look at MOOCs and confirmed a lot of the issues we discussed in class last week. An interesting note is the suggestion that blended MOOCs might offer a better solution; however, then I think this type of course will cease to be a MOOC and it will become something else, whatever you want to call it!  The article is available at:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303759604579093400834738972.html

Tony