‘CENTRALIZED,

DECENTRALIZED, DISTRIBUTED’

Rosanna Flouty, NYU/CUNY

Paul Baran, RAND (1964)

DISRUPTION( )

Schoolchildren practicing ‘duck and cover’ drill under their desks

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

1957-1982

PROTO-

TYPICAL

MOOC

MOOC =

“massive

open online

course”

PROTO-

MOOC

circa

1957

BRIEFEST HISTORY OF DISTANCE LEARNING (ever)

Distance Learning (circa 1890s)

Distance Learning Milestone: UK Open University, Founded in 1971

1957-1982

New York University Campus, circa 1957

NYU’s Washington Square Campus Archives,

October 2013

MOOC

MADNES

S

( )

SOME QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

IN 2013…• How will museums answer the call

for informal online learning

opportunities?

• Will we fall pressure to monetize

prematurely?

• What language will we use to

describe and track long-term impact?