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Pence, Harry E. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2013
The Internet has disrupted or threatened to disrupt the traditional business models in many different areas, including publishing, record companies, retail sales, motion pictures, and advertising. One potential source of disruption for higher education is online learning, especially the recent focus on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Can…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Mass Instruction, Large Group Instruction
Graham, Greg – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Sebastian Thrun gave up tenure at Stanford University after 160,000 students signed up for his free online version of the course "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence." The experience completely changed his perspective on education, he said, so he ditched teaching at Stanford and launched the private Web site Udacity, which offers…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction, Equal Education