Low-cost educational alternative likely to widen digital divide
MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE CLASSES have been
hailed by officials at the companies that run them (the three
biggest are edX, Udacity and Coursera) as a way to provide access
to classes at elite universities to everyone, but critics say
that MOOCs — free online course with potentially thousands of
students, many of them outside the United States — would
undermine education quality, increase the digital divide and cost
teachers their jobs.
