Re: [Phys-L] Is Higher Education Running AMOOC?

[Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

You-all have, of curse, read the long article on MOOCs in the nearly current New Yorker?

LAP TOP U

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/20/130520fa_fact_heller

bc only now reading, as he had to tear it out of Gate Keeper's hands.



On 2013, May 21, , at 15:24, Marty Weiss <martweiss@comcast.net> wrote:

> As they say... Youth is wasted on the young...  However, we older folks are not the demographic the media caters to.  They seem to forget we are in those years when our IRA's are starting to be tapped and pensions and social security (the old three legged retirement stool) are enabling us to go on cruises and enjoy life.  That includes taking on-line courses because we have time and the maturity to get something from them.  
>
> On May 21, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Leigh Palmer wrote:
>
> > I am currently enrolled in a MOOC* and I am enjoying it very much. Oh, yes, by the way, I expect that I am also learning from it, but the revelation here is that the MOOC is entertaining. I think there is a great and rapidly growing market for MOOCs among my peers, retired presenile retirees who have the spare time, inclination, and taste necessary to engage with high quality learning.