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"In its ongoing effort to make MOOCs more and more like traditional education, Coursera has launched 'mentor-guided courses'
"In its ongoing effort to make MOOCs more and more like traditional
education, Coursera has launched 'mentor-guided courses' for the cost of
$US 248."
I like Stephen Downes and the way he pokes fun at the big MOOC companies. Their aim though is simply to try and monetize their courses. The mentor approach is a challenging one unless they can stimulate a market of mentors wishing to take a share of the revenue. The mentors - for scaling to any degree - would need to be at a level of expertise below the course designers. Spreading core faculty this thin would simply not work but getting slightly more experienced learners to mentor others might.
Source: www.downes.ca
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