Hi,
a quick note of a Chronicle of Higher Education article that may be of interest
A First for Udacity: a U.S. University Will Accept Transfer Credit for
One of Its Courses
http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/134162/
In brief the article states: If students enrolled in Udacity's CS101
course take the $89 proctored exam from Pearson they can get transfer
credit at Colorado State University Global Campus. Though some
European institutions have offered similar options this is the first
US option to turn a free course offering into credit (relatively
cheaply).
Thoughts:
*I'm ignoring the conversation about whether credit are the point of a MOOC
*Ok, I don't know how this compares with for example Empire State
University's involvement in OERu and costs for credit there
*Yes, on campus students can get credit for ds106, or one might get a
mooc course assesses in some from as prior learning but these options
bear 'normal' credit costs
*Knowing a little of the pressures in CS education, the economic
challenges in Mike Caulfield's post
http://hapgood.us/2012/08/28/how-moocs-will-kill-higher-education/
seem a lot more real
John
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