The MOOC classrooms are growing at Big Bang rates: more than five million students worldwide have registered for classes in topics ranging from physics to history to aboriginal worldviews.
It creates a strange paradox: these professors are simultaneously the most and least accessible teachers in history. —Grading the MOOC University – NYTimes.com.
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RT @DennisJerz: Grading the MOOC University: (NYT on free online university courses) http://t.co/2cDdmr97sk