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Many people have recognized the potential of massive online open courses (MOOCs) to bring education to distant places in the world. Others have speculated on the use of these courses to enhance or even replace some traditional college classes. However, one of the most significant benefits has been little discussed but is already crucial to many people in the working world, both inside and outside the U.S.
OER(Online Education Resources) are current edtech trend which are providing free online courses from many universities to our teachers and students.
Massive online open courses (MOOCs) are threatening to knock higher education off its traditional autonomous hill with a far more flexible and accessible learning mode than anyone could ever imagine. The stakes are high and outcomes are unknowable during this early era of experimentation. I recently talked with Michael Nanfito, [...]
Online learning platform Udemy announced today that it now supports nine foreign languages and hit the milestone of one million students.
Massive open online courses, or Moocs, are likely to offer 'higher education for the masses' with fewer teachers, says Peter Scott
For millions around the world who lack access to quality teaching, the MOOC-backers are right: This is a revolution.
And everyone, it seems, is talking about MOOCs, the "Massive Open Online Courses" offered by elite universities and enrolling millions worldwide.
There’s a fascinating, in a car crash kinda way, piece from a college professor insisting that massively open online courses (MOOCs) are the very devil. Essentially, the complaint is that having a cheap and easy way to teach undergraduates will mean that college professors will lose their current comfortable livings. Boo hoo, eh?
MOOCs are online courses involving large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web. Besides traditional course materials like videos, readings and problems, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that build a community for the students and professors. MOOCs are a recent development in distance education.
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