"MOOCs" for Credit Come to California

Observaciones interesantes de Audrey Watters, en su blog Hack Education, a partir del anuncio de créditos de la San Jose State University por cursos de Udacity, dirigidos principalmente a community colleges y high schools como preparación para la universidad.

[...] As for me, I've put "MOOCs" in scare quotes throughout this piece. Perhaps it's clear by now that the evolution of these "new" online courses has veered away from the original MOOC vision - both the cMOOC and the xMOOC variety. There are now registration restrictions and enrollment caps; the content is not openly licensed; classes have offline components; they are not free.

Sebastian Thrun [Udacity CEO] describes these iterations as "MOOC 2.0" and says Udacity has come to recognize that most learners require more than simply the videos and exercises that the xMOOCs have offered thus far. "They need mentors," he told me in a phone interview this weekend; "peers and professionals" as he described it at the Reboot California Higher Education event last week [...]

(Como ha dicho alguien, quizá tirando del hilo de los MOOC llegaremos a reeinventar el elearning.)