MOOCs + Publishers

Saw this tweet today, and it made me a bit nauseous. I responded, but focusing on the content development seems to miss the point of connectivity.

#pubconf Mark Lester, FutureLearn: MOOCs and publishers complementary since MOOCs will rely on commercial content, OER not good enough

— Phil Barker (@philbarker) June 12, 2013

Too bad coming from Future Learn (the UK publicly-funded MOOC provider)