Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Letters: Limits of moocs

<P>Michael Barber's report restates the misguided assertion that the rise of moocs (massive online open courses) and other online education providers heralds the demise of conventional university education (Report, 11 March). This is credible only if you believe higher education involves nothing more than acquiring and demonstrating familiarity with subject-related content. Barber rightly observes that in the Google-age, high-quality educational content is freely available. So you

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