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Online Education: UVA, Coursera, Everybody has an opinion

By Nathan Chang Everyone has an opinion about online education and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs, a term I grow weary of with each refresh of Google Reader). Naturally, some are good, some are bad, most are the same arguments recycled and tweaked. I have trudged through two weeks of higher education online education development stories to bring you this roundup with teaser summaries. Enjoy. The big news since the last roundup was Coursera who announced an additional 12 universities would join them, including University of Washington who will be offering credit for courses and University of Virginia. (New York Times) Inside Higher Ed’s take on the Coursera expansion, noting professorial skepticism, board enthusiasm (see UVA board vs. everyone else…