The CIC provosts’ idea to develop a cross-campus network is prompted by an increase in technological capabilities they believe could improve learning, but their effort is also infused with skepticism regarding whether ed tech companies are creating desirable products for faculty and students. The provosts’ paper directly challenges the hype about massive open online courses, or MOOCs. The provosts said the ability to offer a course to a large number of people “is not, in and of itself, a means for extending educational opportunity to millions of potential ‘students.’ ”

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by Ry Rivard, Inside Higher Ed.

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