The Education Apocalypse

Audrey Watters Open Education, 2013

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity And a shit-ton of venture capital !

— William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”

That's great, it starts with an earthquake Birds and snakes, an aeroplane, and Stephen Downes is not afraid !

— R.E.M., “It’s The End of the World As We Know It”

DOOM!

This is not the governor of California who wanted to legislate MOOCs for credit

MOOCthulhu

MOOCthulhu versus brick-and-mortar institutions…

Actually, Neo. “The desert of the real” is a philosophy MOOC.

THE END?