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2014-04 |
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abstract |
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have recently become a much discussed development
within higher education. Much of this debate focuses on the philosophical and operational
similarities and differences between the types of MOOCs that have emerged to date,
the learner completion rates and how they can be sustained. In contrast there has
been much less discussion about how such courses do, or do not, fit in with existing
higher education policy and practice in terms of the social, economic and environmental
benefits. This paper begins to address this issue by comparing and contrasting current
MOOCs with one large population ICT-enhanced, mostly online Open University UK course
presented a decade earlier and how they have both served, or might serve, broader
social, economic or environmental objectives. The paper concludes that while MOOCs
are forcing a re-conceptualisation of higher education study, much can also be learned
from previous and existing large population mainly online courses from open universities. |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/234070 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/234072 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/234073 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/234074 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/234075 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/234076 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/235256 |
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6 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Lane, Andy ; Caird, Sally and Weller, Martin (2014). The potential social, economic
and environmental benefits of MOOCs: operational and historical comparisons with a
massive ‘closed online’ course. Open Praxis, 6(2) pp. 115–123. |
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Lane, Andy ; Caird, Sally and Weller, Martin (2014). The potential social, economic
and environmental benefits of MOOCs: operational and historical comparisons with a
massive ‘closed online’ course. Open Praxis, 6(2) pp. 115–123. |
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Title |
The potential social, economic and environmental benefits of MOOCs: operational and
historical comparisons with a massive ‘closed online’ course |
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oro |