Dive Brief:
- One expert says that the business questions surrounding MOOCs are like the early days of the dot-com boom, with one central question: "How will you make money?"
- He suggests that MOOCs will have a definite effect on what happens in college classrooms and could lead to the death of the PowerPoint lecture.
- Another expert worries about the gap between the promise of MOOCs making education more widely available and the potential for MOOCs to be used as a cost-cutting tool.
Dive Insight:
The article features snippets from eight experts and one theme emerges: There is certainly promise in MOOCs, but there is also the danger of overpromising. In terms of drawing comparisons to the dot-com boom, it's useful to remember that even Amazon — a poster child for the success and potential of the early 2000s Internet economy — took years to turn even a modest profit.
