{"id":2549,"date":"2013-07-15T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T12:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2013-07-15T08:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T12:49:31","slug":"nathan-heller-laptop-u-the-new-yorker-may-20-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/nathan-heller-laptop-u-the-new-yorker-may-20-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Heller, “Laptop U” The New Yorker, May 20, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source: NewYorker.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Professors may rue them, but MOOCs (massive online open courses) are here to stay. They are one more example of how the Internet is disrupting nearly everything.<\/p>\n

A particularly thorny question is the matter of copyright: when a professor creates an online course, whose property is it? Can a university refuse to take it offline after a professor leaves the school? \u00a0Professors can persuasively argue that they have copyright over their lecture notes, the publications they produce while at the university, etc.<\/p>\n

My sense, however, is that the toggle will be set so that MOOCs will belong to the schools that employ the professors. Superstar professors—folks like Larry Summers<\/a>—quite probably will be able to keep ownership or reap some sort of royalties. Why? Because that is the way the world works.<\/p>\n

You may read more at\u00a0http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/05\/20\/130520fa_fact_heller<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professors may rue them, but MOOCs (massive online open courses) are here to stay. They are one more example of how the Internet is disrupting nearly everything. A particularly thorny question is the matter of copyright: when a professor creates an online course, whose property is it? Can a university refuse to take it offline […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[143],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-read","tag-the-new-yorker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-F7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}