Educação online

Pushing Free Online Learning in a New Direction

Posted by: Alison Damast

Business professors from several top universities in the U.S. are among a dozen instructors participating in one of the online education market’s latest experiments, a new website called the Faculty Project. Like many free online course offerings, the program, launched in late January, allows professors to upload free courses and supplementary course material. What makes it unique is that it also allows professors to interact with students, and students with each other, via online discussion boards. It is an offshoot of Udemy, a for-profit company launched in 2010 that lets people design and sell courses through its online platform...
 Some education professionals question whether the website will be able to attract as many professors as it hopes; Udemy says its goal is to have 100 professors signed on to the Faculty Project by year’s end. To date, most online learning platforms modeled on the OpenCourseWare movement (launched by MIT in 2002) have been associated with a university, said Roger Schonfeld, manager of research at Ithaka S+R, a higher education strategy and research organization...
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