“So why now, why MOOCs?” Ray Schroeder, the director of the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service at the University of Illinois-Springfield, asked Thursday in Madison during a session at the 28th annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. “What’s it going to do to higher ed? What’s it going to do to us and our business plans? Honestly, we don’t know the answer to many of those questions.” ... Most would agree that delivering high-quality education to the masses for free is a noble cause. “It’s a phenomenon that’s moving ahead at the speed of the Internet,” Ray Schroeder told conference-goers at the Monona Terrace Convention Center during his jam-packed, 45-minute session. “This year and next year provides an opportunity for each one of us here to join in the process of setting those effective practices and helping make a difference in how MOOCs are rolled out.”
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