Faculty Coalition: It’s Time to Examine MOOC and Online Ed Profit Motives — Campus Technology

• Faculty Coalition: It’s Time to Examine MOOC and Online Ed Profit Motives — Campus Technology

  Nothing wrong with corporations or business nvolved in higher education that unlike the old paradigm can deliver lower cost and improve outcomes together with building connections to employers. For the last twenty years the cost of a college education has exceeded the rate of inflation and health care cost in addition student loan debt has burdended many students and parents with crushing student loan debt where were these college critics when college costs rocketed creating a nation of degree have and have nots. 

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  • A coalition of faculty groups has declared war against online learning, particularly massive open online courses (MOOCs), because it said it believes that the fast expansion of this form of education is being promulgated by corporations — specifically for-profit colleges and universities and education technology companies — at the expense of student education and public interest.

  • Specifically, corporations and investors have a major interest in the adoption of education technology to deliver online classes.

  • campaign coalition includes 65 faculty, student, teacher and union associations from across the United States.

  • According to the campaign, the report is a "first step in looking at who is making money, how much, in what ways, and with whose assistance in online higher education."

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