Adults go to school in quarantine
If you thought the incessant predictions that we’re pivoting to online learning after the coronavirus were bullshit, you may be partly wrong. This is to say that massive open online courses (MOOCs) for adults are baaaack. After a years-long drop-off, the New York Times reports that Coursera, a free-to-low-cost online course platform founded by Stanford University professors, has enrolled ten million people since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. (Coursera recently made all of its courses free for people who’ve lost their jobs due to the coronavirus outbreak.) Similarly credentialed programs Udacity and edX have also seen an unusual surge.
They’re good programs.
Still, here’s hoping Andrew Cuomo’s wish to rid us of classrooms doesn’t come true.
