Steve Carson has posted a reply to David Wiley’s assertion that OCW’s will need to offer credit by 2012, or face elimination (reported by OEN last week). Carson is skeptical of Wiley’s points, asserting that OCW can capitalize on other strengths, such as marketing. From the blog post:
MIT came to the OCW concept in part because the market fundamentals in distance learning didn’t seem to favor MIT. Those fundamentals still apply. Will MIT OpenCourseWare need to be sustainable in 2012? Undoubtedly. Will it be so through distance learning? I’m not holding my breath.
