MOOC's on Hold

A new article in the chronicle of higher ed reports that San Jose State will not be offering MOOC credit courses for students come fall semester. The news comes after reports of leaked data from a slide show presented that students for the 3 trial MOOC math courses did better than students who did not enroll. The group responsible for the leak is the California Faculty Association, a group determined to end private influence over course instruction and technology tools in education, views this move as progress for further evaluation on data and implications for future use of MOOC's in universities. Given the difficulties of the Udacity platform to facilitate instruction, and that certain stduents in the trial had limited access to the platform, the break may seem like a good move. However, further research into MOOC instructional techniques might ease faculty tensions with technology and open course instruction.