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Why didn't MOOCs revolutionize education as predicted in 2012?

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Drawn from Lutz Finger's Forbes column, LinkedIn writing, and Cornell teaching. Sources are cited inline so you can read the originals.

Traditional classrooms remained more adaptive than early online learning platforms.

In 2012, companies like Coursera and edX were going to change the world of education, but this revolution has not happened, at least not yet. Universities have high fixed costs, and online so far offered only minimal marginal revenue. More importantly, a traditional classroom was more adaptive than MOOCs. Teachers adapt their speed to students, and students bring diverse previous experiences that are as important as the actual lecture itself.

How COVID Changed Our Classrooms? A Self-Experiment Of Online Teaching. · Forbes


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