The Ubyssey, UBC’s student newspaper, provides an in-depth examination and explores various perspectives on UBC’s initial Coursera-based MOOCs, the broader flexible learning initiative, and the future of education. According to Gregor Kiczales, a UBC professor of computer science and a MOOC instructor, “All of higher education is going to be dramatically influenced by the emergence of the Internet as a channel between educators and learners. Exactly how that’s going to play out, nobody knows.” Jon Beasley-Murray, a UBC professor of professor of Latin American studies and open education advocate reminds that “a university is not meant to be a profit-making institution. A university is — it’s in the name — universal. It’s for all. It’s for the common good.”

Link: http://ubyssey.ca/features/information-driveway-moocs-462/