Dive Summary:
- With schools giving away classes online, it's hard to see where the money is for many MOOCs, so David Raths in Campus Technology asks, "What's next?"
- Raths compares the current landscape of online education to musical chairs — no one is quite sure where it's all headed, but no one wants to be left out when the music stops.
- Raths summarizes the strategies of the three biggest MOOC firms — Coursera, Udacity, and edX — as similar to Silicon Valley darling Amazon and more recent startups: Build market share now and worry about profits later.
From the article:
... "What won't work is the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand approach, like people who hoped the internet would go away," Coursera's Ng says. "Our university partners are taking charge and working out sustainable models with the MOOC movement." ...
