ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#15 | April 29, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are the talk of the town in the education world. With the success of Khan Academy, Udacity, Coursera, edX, etc. in teaching millions of “students” for free, MOOCs are now seen by many to be the future of low-cost and high-quality education at a large scale. While some question the effectiveness of MOOCs, many are starting to see them as a disruption to the education establishment.
To see why it could change higher education, it is important to look at a main ingredient that powers MOOCs: online videos. In this roundtable on Nov. 23, mathematics professor Kevin Cheung, recently selected as one of 10 YouTube Next EDU Gurus for his MathApptician channel, shared his experience on making videos for his courses as well as sampled a few YouTube EDU channels and compared them against the traditional classroom experience.