Dive Summary:
- Princeton University's Mitchell Duneier taught an introduction to sociology course via Coursera last year and was featured on the front page of the New York Times, but he worries that MOOCs would be used as an excuse to cut funding to schools so he's not teaching the course anymore.
- He says he changed his mind after Coursera asked him about licensing his course so that other colleges could use the content to mix online and face-to-face instruction, a step that could save them money.
- Duneier says he would teach a MOOC again under the right circumstances, but for now is taking a "wait and see" approach.
From the article:
... Mr. Duneier's move also points to potential sustainability issues for the companies that champion MOOCs and the institutions that hope to rely on them. What happens when instructors decide to stop teaching their MOOCs, either because of ideological concerns or simply because offering a class to the whole world takes so much work? ...