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"A new report by Moody’s Investors Service suggests that while MOOCs’ exploitation of expanded collaborative networks and technological innovation will benefit higher education in the United States as a whole, their long-term effect on the for-profit sector and smaller not-for-profit institutions could be damaging." Via Peter B. Sloep
Peter John Baskerville's insight:
You know when creative disruption is taking place when organisations like accounting firms and venture capitalists that are far removed from the main players can see it happening. Moody's is the latest non-edu institution to see the revolution in education taking place with the tsunami that is MOOCs. 
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What is perhaps most interesting about this, is that Moody's - yes, they - are interested in MOOCs at all. This shows that xMOOCs (unlike cMOOCs) are an innovation in the costing of Higher Ed., not their pedagogy. So, we do not get better education with them, but a more affordable education, if indeed we do. University World News agrees: "But the important development associated with MOOCs is that they are able to offer exponentially larger enrolments. And, with these, the potential profits are much larger." I suggest we acknowledge that xMOOCs make for lousy pedagogy and only value them for what they are, a means to make higher education cheaper. Then we can at least start talking about the question of whether we are ok with that. (@pbsloep, thanks to @guzdial)
...die internationalen Finanzmärte ingeressieren sich für #mooc s :-) bug oder feature :-)