The Educated Reporter: EWA Higher Ed Seminar: Moving Beyond Moocs

The Educated Reporter: EWA Higher Ed Seminar: Moving Beyond Moocs:

THE EDUCATED REPORTER

COMMENTARY ON EDUCATION COVERAGE, WRITING AND A FEW OTHER THINGS

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2013

EWA Higher Ed Seminar: Moving Beyond Moocs

EWA held its annual Higher Education Seminar recently at Boston's Northeastern University. We invited some of the education journalists in attendance to contribute posts from the sessions. Today's guest blogger is Carl Straumsheim of Inside Higher Ed. For more content from the seminar, including stories, podcasts, video, check out EdMedia Commons. Additional background and helpful resources on online learning in higher education, including MOOCs, can be found at Story Starters. 

Is it possible that two education company executives, a researcher and a reporter could spend an hour discussing technology in higher education without mentioning massive open online courses?

The answer, of course, is no, but during the hour-long panel titled “Making the Most of Online Education” at EWA's conference, MOOCs were all but an afterthought. Less than a year after The New York Times declared 2012 the “Year of the MOOC,” who would have thought?

As Blackboard’s Jay Bhatt, Kaplan’s Bror Saxberg and the Community College