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2. Napster, Udacity, and the Academy (Clay Shirky) The battle over MOOCs is really about the story we tell ourselves about higher education: what it is, who it's for and how it's delivered, who's responsible for it. [...] The chance that MOOCs will be a viable alternative any technology that could replace the traditional college experience would have to function like a college and the institutions that are best in achieving this are already colleges. The chance that MOOCs will succeed is that the educational aspects of education can be unbundled. MOOCs broaden the audience for education to those who are completely shut out from the current system, in the same way the phonographs opened up the audience for symphonies people who could not get to a concert hall, and PCs widened the range of users of computing power to individuals who weren't employed in large corporations.
3. The Hobbit, Redux - the main programmer for The Hobbit game was a woman. As is the norm, under-credited
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