Dear all,
Since the start of the coursera and then the Udacity experiment, I have been extremely vocal at my institution (FAST-NU) to consider how this new paradigm on MOOC's will affect us. Here is an amazing article that is making the case that we might be like the newspaper industry that new that the digital age was coming but was lazy not to adapt in time and caused several great papers to collapse.
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/11/napster-udacity-and-the-academy/
My favorite quote from the article is "First, the people running the old system don't notice the change. When they do, they assume it's minor. Then that it's a niche. Then a fad. And by the time they understand that the world has actually changed, they've squandered most of the time they had to adapt."
So true, and we (the people in higher education) need to be able to adapt to this vision and brainstorm solutions. Lets not play catch-the-west here, for once we are at an even keel with them and can ourselves generate a new paradigm.
Affan
http://www.isb.nu.edu.pk/affan/
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