Welcome to the Brave New World of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)

More top colleges are offering free massive open online courses, but companies and universities still need to figure out a way to monetize them.

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[BlogDeJoel]

Space!

[Bu Yao]

Thank you, New York Times, for recognizing this! I heard about Udacity from a friend in multivariable calculus at BYUI, and now I am hooked! I just learned from this video about coursera and edx and I have both websites opened up in tabs right now!! THANK YOU, NEW YORK TIMES!

[matmicm1]

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[smichaeldennis]

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[scienceisknolwedge]

Also, the revenue from ads is not something "cool and fine", it's at a certain point, absurdly unethical. Search for Eli Pariser's book The Invisible Filter - there is also a lecture of it on Youtube.

[scienceisknolwedge]

Not really; now Google is not only making profit, but huge amounts. They already sell what we search and tags, now videos before videos and if you don't have one account, it's impossible to use, there's to much propaganda.

They just won't handle it the right way - Youtube is not here to serve anything but profit to Google, that's a problem for us.

[TheRowdyTiger]

Don't argue with them. People like that don't ever put any real thought into how money is made or business is done. They probably complain about ads too.

[KixuFox]

Youtube would have gone bankrupt without google...

[scienceisknolwedge]

If monetize means to collectively donate to keep it working it's fine, if it comes to profit it won't be nice. See what google made of youtube?

[Matisyahu Greenspan]

Things cost money. Besides, monetization doesn't mean that they will start charging for courses. Google's services are free, their monetization comes mostly from ad revenue. So what's wrong with that?