Inside the #Coursera Hype Machine
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/176036/inside-coursera-hype-machine
The quest continues among venture capitalists to find the next Facebook, the next Google, the next eBay—and the Silicon Valley hype machine is suggesting that it might be Coursera, the “leader of the pack” among companies trying to make money with massive open online courses, or MOOCs.
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Tech Mania Goes to College
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/176037/tech-mania-goes-college
Are MOOCs—massive open online courses—the utopia of affordable higher education, or just the latest fad?