What will be some of the most important stories in higher education over the next year?
2012 was declared the “year of the MOOC” by the New York Times. 2013 was called by many the “year of the MOOC backlash.”
Half-way through 2014, and it’s still not clear how to boil this year down into one phrase. Maybe we can’t, but at the Education Writers Association National Seminar in Nashville Monday, veteran higher ed reporter Scott Jaschik highlighted the top 10 stories and issues you should be hearing about over the next year.
And MOOCs didn’t make the cut.
“MOOCs are not on the list,” Jaschik said. “MOOCs are not going to change the world.”
Read on for what Jaschik does think are the most important higher ed stories of the year.
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