Any new technology replacing another is socially disruptive for better or for worse, more accurately, for better AND for worse. Free quality education, accessible by anyone anywhere is bound to have great social implications, especially since education has been so closely associated with the term “elite”. But if something shifts, tremendously, something else must take up the space left behind. We no longer have to stand in line, waiting to reach the soup lady, because that is our only dinner option. No, the line is gone and every person is provided an entire buffet. It is now up to us to dish up. MOOCs are busy blurring the cracks of social dividedness, and the value of one’s own education is becoming nothing short of a personal responsibility.
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