Copied from faculty email thread:

Vardi does not answer the question in his title. And he seems to want to play King Canute. He states: "no business model has emerged for MOOC-based education."

But Thrun says he's found it (and the VCs believe him):

http://allthingsd.com/20121025/education-start-up-udacity-raises-funds-from-andreessen-horowitz/

Michiel and I tried to get people to use the wiki:

https://bugs.cs.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Faculty/OnlineLearning

to discuss this and prepare for our working meeting. But no luck - that's too much overhead - no notifications? It's an important topic But we think we should keep the clutter out of the faculty list - maybe that's not an issue. Would people prefer to use a list they can sign up for?

- Alan

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Holger H. Hoos <hoos@cs.ubc.ca> wrote: > An interesting view on the topic, from the editor in chief of Communications of the ACM (hot off e press):
>
> http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2370000/2366317/p5-vardi.pdf?ip=64.46.3.10&acc=OPEN&CFID=132282402&CFTOKEN=22415908&__acm__=1351178903_6bb9079704ea4d1ac600564c5c39245b
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Holger
>

-- AlanMackworth - 25 Oct 2012