Academics Are Down on MOOCs. Business Schools Aren't

Academic leaders are increasingly skeptical of MOOCs, so why are top business schools increasingly warming to the online learning model? An annual report on online education published this week may hold a clue.

Babson Survey Research Group polled more than 2,800 colleges and universities for an annual study (pdf) on online education and found that 39 percent disagreed with the statement that massively open online courses “are a sustainable method for offering courses.” That’s up from 26 percent who answered the same way in last year’s survey.