Will MOOCs Open Elite Universities to Excessive Corporate Influence?

Otra reflexión sobre los MOOC y la mcdonaldización de la enseñanza. Vía @jsalinasi.

[...] Faculty members will have to submit their syllabuses in advance. They will have to cover precisely the ground that they say they will: there will be no swerving from the original plan. Digressions and jokes will be at a minimum, assuming that they are allowed at all. And there is this too: the courses will also have to be radically inoffensive. They will have to be palatable to as many people across the world as possible so as to increase market possibilities to the maximum point.[...]