The University of Texas at Arlington is hosting a in December with the help of a $97,200 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The event will bring in speakers from universities around the country that offer massive open online courses, .
Online education has become a bigger topic of conversation in recent months as students find economical ways to get a college education and top universities try to reach more students. Several prestigious schools like Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are now .
Whether MOOCs are good for students and education though is . According to some reports, who enroll in these online courses drop out. Some of those students have complained that they feel isolated and not engaged when taking online classes.
Titled 鈥�,鈥� the UTA event is a collaboration with the at the University of Athabasca in Canada.
George Siemens, an organizer of this initiative, says some pioneers of this type of learning will be at the conference. And, as , digital learning isn鈥檛 going anyway anytime soon.
