To expand on that, the for-profit Coursera seems like a great partner for universities at the moment, but in the future, if they become a force, a platform with millions of students, their profit interest and the universities' interests could begin to diverge.
Hopefully, the various platforms (Coursera, edX, Udacity) play nice together, i.e., it's only a small amount of work to setup the same course content on a new platform.
> Hopefully, the various platforms (Coursera, edX, Udacity) play nice together, i.e., it's only a small amount of work to setup the same course content on a new platform.
As Google SREs say: Hope is not a strategy.
(Especially when you're hoping against the economic interests of the players involved.)
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To expand on that, the for-profit Coursera seems like a great partner for universities at the moment, but in the future, if they become a force, a platform with millions of students, their profit interest and the universities' interests could begin to diverge.
Hopefully, the various platforms (Coursera, edX, Udacity) play nice together, i.e., it's only a small amount of work to setup the same course content on a new platform.
> Hopefully, the various platforms (Coursera, edX, Udacity) play nice together, i.e., it's only a small amount of work to setup the same course content on a new platform.
As Google SREs say: Hope is not a strategy.
(Especially when you're hoping against the economic interests of the players involved.)