Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Coursera has two problems. The first is that its peer assessment system is broken. The second is that it needs to continue to scale and attract investment. Both of these are leading it to turn to AI. "People are eager to invest in the parts of a business that scale. Not everyone wants to invest in the humans to maintain that scale. Peer review is slow and can be messy and expensive to do well." The core question is this: does this end the slow decline of Coursera's credibility, or does it accelerate it?

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