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title: "MOOCs: We’ve seen this movie before and it didn’t have a happy ending"
date: "2013-07-28T10:56:18-07:00"
modified: "2013-07-28T10:56:18-07:00"
author: kims
url: "https://dominoresearch.com/moocs-weve-seen-this-movie-before-and-it-didnt-have-a-happy-ending"
categories: The Domino Effect
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description: By Jason Stoffer On July 24, 2013The recent $43 million round of financing for Coursera fuels the growing hype, much of which has been sparked by VCs and industry pundits, around the “death” of traditional education. In theory, massively open online…
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# MOOCs: We’ve seen this movie before and it didn’t have a happy ending

[![6493011](//img.1.rp-api.com/thumb/6493011)](http://s.tt/1In31)[**MOOCs: We’ve seen this movie before and it didn’t have a happy ending**](http://s.tt/1In31) (via [Pando Daily](http://s.tt/1In31))

By Jason Stoffer On July 24, 2013The recent $43 million round of financing for Coursera fuels the growing hype, much of which has been sparked by VCs and industry pundits, around the “death” of traditional education. In theory, massively open online…

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