tacanderson:

MOOCs aren’t broken. Anytime you reduce the friction for people to start something you’re going to see an increase in people not finishing. That’s not a bad thing. It doesn’t even mean they didn’t get what they wanted/needed out of it. 

What we really need is a MOOC accreditation standard besides the traditional education system. I think the next evolution will be for someone like Khan Academy to team up with physical testing centers to provide supervised testing administration (a key part of the accreditation process). 

Universities will fight this of course, but smaller Community Colleges and other alternative education choices should embrace this. 

funny. accreditation has been part of the perceived problem that MOOC-rakers would disrupt.