{"id":2897,"date":"2013-01-27T21:53:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2013-07-11T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T16:53:41","slug":"irrational-exuberance-over-moocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2897","title":{"rendered":"'Irrational exuberance' over MOOCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/c\/34656\/f\/636635\/s\/27f2b60b\/l\/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Canswer0Esheet0Cpost0Cirrational0Eexuberance0Eover0Emoocs0C20A130C0A10C270C9b6c0Adae0E68810E11e20E9a0Ab0Edb931670Af35d0Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Inational\/story01.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> the article <\/a>is written by sympathizer of traditional professors in colleges and universities. Those who think they can have tenure and go on sabbatical would have to think twice with the advent of MOOC, because they never thought twice about the rising tuition fee under all that financial bureaucracy of the schools they work for.<\/p>\n<p>MOOC has far better learning opportunity. The author \"forgot\" to mention MOOC's discussion forums.<\/p>\n<p>These are the ones whose chief interest is not teaching, but financial stability.<\/p>\n<p>There are those professors whose main passion is teaching and learning. Those are rare gems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the article is written by sympathizer of traditional professors in colleges and universities. Those who think they can have tenure and go on sabbatical would have to think twice with the advent of MOOC, because they never thought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2897\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3628,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/3628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}