Monday, February 4, 2013

2012 in Review: “Universities in 2020 - will we need them? MOOCs and their impact” (Week 5)

Universities in 2020 - will we need them?  
An Inquiring Minds Lecture by Associate Professor David Glance
Tuesday 23 Oct October 2012
"The availability of free online university courses from the world’s most prestigious institutions threatens to bring about radical change in the way the world accesses education. The first course offered by Stanford University in this way attracted 160,000 students. For the first time, anyone with an internet connection in any part of the world can take a university course and receive a credit for it. With this access comes the possibility of millions of people who could only dream of taking courses at Harvard or MIT being able further their education and with it the range of possibilities in their lives."

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