Negatives Of MOOC

In this present time people cannot imagine their life without technology. Technology has incredibly evolved over past decades and helped people in every part of their life. Technology astonishingly changed the way we do things, people can watch movie from their phone, we can communicate with our siblings from across the country and doctors can do surgery from the other part of the world, and in the next fifteen years, we can travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles within one hour. Technology also changed many aspects in education. One of the most famous aspect is MOOC. MOOC was first introduced in 2008. MOOC is an online course designed for massive number of participator as a supplemental from traditional class. MOOC had grown massively and

It is true that MOOC has many positives, however, behind those positives, there are some crucial negatives. “One thing that Coursera doesn’t do well is teach non-cognitive skills,” Ng said. MOOC gives students freedoms to control their flexible courses, they can do their homework early in the morning and also in the middle of the night. These freedoms make students more individualistic since they do not have to communicate with their classmates. After student graduates from colleges, they will use their skills to work with people, however, with individualistic personality, it will become a big problem. In the other hand, traditional class does teach their student how to work as a team, how to comment a person and how to face a problem. Traditional class also give us business connection, since almost all of the students are going to work after they graduate. Ng also mentioned that not only MOOC need a pricey system, but also it requires students to have device and access internets. Ng also mentioned that "There are studies that suggest that 80 percent of your income are due to non-cognitive skills: teamwork, ethics, and the ability to regulate anxiety. It 's an open question whether Coursera can develop technology to teach non-cognitive skills. By contrast, universities do a much better job.” It shows us how non-cognitive skills can affect our future in working as a team

Many people argue about MOOC completion rate, it only has 10% of completion rate, which is really low compare to traditional class. However, a MOOC class can handle thousands of students, where traditional class usually can only handle less than a hundred of students. If we do the math, we know that small parts from a big thing is bigger than big parts of a small thing. Researches also show us that, there are a large number of people get the benefits of MOOC even without completing the class and 80% of the users have already had at least a college degree. LeBar mentioned that "Unlike university-offered courses, MOOCs offer significant gains to their students even if they are not completed”. However, people do not think this way, they just want to know how many people really serious about MOOC and they do not want low completion