How Free Online Courses Are Changing Traditional Education
New ideas and technologies for education are poised to enable big changes in the way we teach and learn, for better or worse. PBS newshour had a good overview of MOOCs, the latest phenominon, in the segment "How Free Online Courses Are Changing Traditional Education".
"As tuition costs continue to rise, it seems counterintuitive that professors at top universities would give away their courses for free. But that's exactly what they're doing, on web-based platforms known as "Massive Open Online Courses." Spencer Michels reports on how a boom in online learning could change higher education."