Rhetoric Check - Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed

The faculty leaders behind the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education continued their barrage against massive open online courses on Tuesday, challenging the providers to come clean on “overblown, misleading or simply false” rhetoric. In letters blasted off last week to the founders of Coursera, edX and Udacity, the organization expresses its concern that the MOOC providers are motivated not by the “needs of our students, but the needs of [their] investors.” The organization stresses in the letters that it is opposed neither to technology in education nor to companies making a profit, only to the rhetoric some of those companies use about their products. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/14/faculty-group-continues-anti-mooc-offensive#sthash.8aQXFlH9.dpbs