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He had worked with CUNY's campuses to raise their teacher education admissions requirements and to make their course work more rigorous.
This has led to big dilemmas not only for institutions, but academics themselves: should they get on board the Mooc train, boost their academic profile and make their course content freely available online – or fear being left behind?
In most cases universities try to keep their well-known infrastructure and lecture courses based on the expertise of the current staff while using attractive short term hypes to make their course offer more attractive.
As new models of digital learning sweep across higher education, colleges and universities across the globe are scrambling to get on board and make their course catalogs available to a wider audience via the Web.
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Arum and Roksa point out that professors have little incentive to make their courses more rigorous.
Foreign students make up 34% of students in America's elite schools and 85% in European schools.Business schools have also struggled to make their courses less theoretical.
Today it notes that educators can create iTunes U courses in 69 countries, and can make their courses and educational content accessible in 155 countries via the iTunes U app.
The Canvas Network, which has now delivered 40 open online courses from institutions like Brown to the UCF, enables schools to both make their courses open and available to the public, or make them private and just offer them to their own student body.
In addition to making the MIT and Harvard learning experience available at scale to learners around the world, edX has been built on top of the open-source MITx platform in effort to allow other institutions to take advantage of its technology and make their courses available through edX.
He said the traditional lecture model is outdated and remarked it was pointless for 100 universities to develop the same courses when "the best professors are making their course available for free".
But Saad Rizvi, an executive director at Pearson, said it was pointless for 100 universities to develop the same courses when "the best professors are making their course available for free".
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