I've Got the Magic Rubric!

Jonathan Rees has a longer post on the "magic rubric" the MOOC thinks is out there.  His final paragraph is great:

The longer we act as if the magic rubric actualy exists, the more damage MOOCs will inflict on the education of our most vulnerable college students and the livelihoods of our most vulnerable faculty colleagues. What I don’t understand is why more superprofessors can’t reach this conclusion before their MOOCs even gets off the ground. After all, the non-existence of the magic rubric, like so many other things about online education, is actually bloody obvious.

Go read the rest.

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