Another disruption that is only an undersea quake right now heading for a tsunami. Can libraries and academic institutions move fast enough to address this or are their processes too slow and conservative?
Big 3 MOOC Providers Turning One Year Old
“We are in the middle of the first anniversary of the creation of the big 3 MOOC providers (Coursera, Udacity, edX).
- Sebastian Thrun announced the creation of Udacity on January 23, 2012 as described by Reuters.
- Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng announced the creation of Coursera on April 18, 2012 in this NY Times article.
- MIT and Harvard announced the creation of edX on May 2, 2012 in this MIT article.”
Again, it’s often useful to follow the money (capital, business models, and partnerships) in stuff that is ‘free’. Take a deeper look into what’s happening here with major university brands, publisher alliances, advertising and big data collections . . . etc.
Stephen
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RT @sabram: Disruption: Big 3 MOOC Providers Turning One Year Old: http://t.co/9sBljo3M5W