Coursera Launches Learning Hubs — Physical Premises for Online Courses
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Coursera announced the opening of such hubs for training in many cities around the world. At the beginning, it is planned to open 27 centers, including in Moscow and Kiev . But, at this time, the specific addresses of such centers are not presented.
Original post from Coursera .
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But I did not write this post just to share the news. I see in this event a turning point in the whole system of higher education.
Cities of the world where the first hubs will be opened.
Some time ago I published an article on Habré about how I see the higher education system in the future . One of my predictions was just such “places to learn” where local students of online courses would teach their courses.
In my project MyEducationPath.com I made a section called Places to Study where I want to publish places for independent learning. At this time there is only one place - this is MOOCCampus. But soon there will be another 27 - hubs from Coursera.
The importance of the appearance of such hubs is really huge. Critics of open courses like to say that online courses cannot replace traditional education. After all, education is not only a theoretical study of the material. But appearances of physical places like the hubs from Coursera solve a part of this problem.
I am sure that as soon as the hubs start working, physical, chemical, biological and other educational laboratories will be available for online courses for students. And the problem of lack of practical training in online learning will be solved.
But in fact, for me it is not entirely clear how all this will work for free for a student. Who will finance? There are suggestions that Coursera will “sell heads”, that is, merge information from talents to corporations, and those in turn will hunter the best heads to their companies. But this is only speculation.
One more question which is very interesting to me - will it be possible in such places to teach opening courses from other providers? On the one hand for Coursera it is not profitable. On the other hand, how to control what teaches a group of students at the moment?
P.S. If interested here is my article about the future of higher education and about my project MyEducationPath.com
In Coursera, we imagine the future in which everyone has access to world-class education. We try to find and share ways to overcome the barriers that stand in the way of successful learning. Today we are announcing a new initiative, Learning Hubs (learning spaces) - which will provide people around the world with a physical space where they can access the Internet to enroll in a Coursera course and explore it with their peers. Everything is completely free.
Coursera announced the opening of such hubs for training in many cities around the world. At the beginning, it is planned to open 27 centers, including in Moscow and Kiev . But, at this time, the specific addresses of such centers are not presented.
Original post from Coursera .
')
But I did not write this post just to share the news. I see in this event a turning point in the whole system of higher education.
Cities of the world where the first hubs will be opened.
What does this event mean for the traditional system of higher education?
Some time ago I published an article on Habré about how I see the higher education system in the future . One of my predictions was just such “places to learn” where local students of online courses would teach their courses.
In my project MyEducationPath.com I made a section called Places to Study where I want to publish places for independent learning. At this time there is only one place - this is MOOCCampus. But soon there will be another 27 - hubs from Coursera.
The importance of the appearance of such hubs is really huge. Critics of open courses like to say that online courses cannot replace traditional education. After all, education is not only a theoretical study of the material. But appearances of physical places like the hubs from Coursera solve a part of this problem.
I am sure that as soon as the hubs start working, physical, chemical, biological and other educational laboratories will be available for online courses for students. And the problem of lack of practical training in online learning will be solved.
But in fact, for me it is not entirely clear how all this will work for free for a student. Who will finance? There are suggestions that Coursera will “sell heads”, that is, merge information from talents to corporations, and those in turn will hunter the best heads to their companies. But this is only speculation.
One more question which is very interesting to me - will it be possible in such places to teach opening courses from other providers? On the one hand for Coursera it is not profitable. On the other hand, how to control what teaches a group of students at the moment?
P.S. If interested here is my article about the future of higher education and about my project MyEducationPath.com
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/200532/
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