A noteworthy post. After I read your post I read the article as well. I find it really interesting that the point about “flattening of expertise” was what I noticed when I was writing about universities of the future. Although on the contrary to the author, I personally find a relief to professors and teachers. I guess it is much harder to be the god than to be a fellow traveler! It is the way it should be. Let’s liberate the science as long as we respect the scientific method and scientific structure of thinking!

Very interesting. I have personally tried the last one numerous times and like it says, it never fails! Although I should say it is important to protect the devil’s advocate. Probably the scariest thing in the world are the looks in the eyes of group of people who really feel on the verge of losing tolerance!!! ?

I think MOOCs can not replace the teachers. Students need close contact and direct feedback from teachers. MOOCs in assistance to teachers can be effective.

Interesting post. This post is really helpful to me in the sense that I need to take several group discussion every semester, but I do not have idea to keep group discussion alive.

Technologies make class alive and make communications easy.

I think there are pros and cons. It was not that bad for me studying in French architecture school (tuition is free, but still need to pay comprehensive fee), but I heard that the tax in France is almost 50% of the income. I was satisfied with the quality of learning, but the school facility was not that good as american schools. Also, student support service is not well developed compared to the US institutions.

I’m glad that you openly blogged about this because too many students think that they are the only ones that feel this way! Grad students in general are plagued with self-doubt, which is closely related to the idea of the imposter syndrome.

I don’t think MOOC can replace actual university system, neither. Because obtaining knowledge is not the sole goal of attending university. I think building network and social activities are the other goals that we cannot achieve with MOOC.