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鈥淔rom Amherst to San Jose State, faculty are asking about the wisdom of setting a price of zero for college teaching. 鈥� Faculty are also wondering about the prudence of encouraging a teaching regime that relies on a few superstar teachers (the MOOC creators) and an army of facilitators (the people formerly known as the faculty),鈥� he writes.
But MOOCs are not what faculty should be worried about, Kim says. Among things they should worry about, he says, are 鈥渙ur systematic public disinvestment in higher education鈥� and health care costs that 鈥渨ill swamp the ability of states to fund post-secondary education.鈥�
, published 5/21/13 by edSurge.