As lauded as the upcoming MOOCs are, not everyone is convinced. Here, I present two examples of articles expressing this sentiment. First, we have an articulate skeptic:

“While I believe that MOOCS are wonderful for the people who teach them and can be wonderful for our institutions, I don’t believe that MOOCs offer any sort of solution to increase access, raise quality, or decrease costs in the higher ed marketplace.

If we are serious as a society about investing in the human capital of our citizens (and thus provide opportunities for economic self-sufficiency and even economic mobility) that we need to invest public dollars in higher ed. I worry that MOOCs are a distraction to this need for investment, and will divert attention from the systematic dis-investments we are seeing in post-secondary funding by government at all levels.”

Head on over to Inside Higher Ed to read seven specific concerns the author has with MOOCs.

And second, we have some critical (and nervous?) faculty responses, e.g., “Professors of the world unite. You have more to lose than just your jobs.”