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shared by anonymous on 13 Apr 16 - No Cached

people in the developing world use online courses very differently than their developed world counterparts
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9% of MOOC non-users had never heard of MOOCs.
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Half of non-users aware of MOOCs cited this as a main reason for not taking courses, while just 4% cited lack of computer access and 6% cited high Internet costs.
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shared by Sasha Thackaberry on 07 Jul 14 - No Cached

While the number of students taking MOOCs has exploded in the past few years, experts are divided on what impact the courses have had on international education opportunities.
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Advocates and creators of massive open online courses – the free courses open to anyone with an Internet connection – have high hopes for how the classes can help those hungry for a U.S.-style education. 
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"Over time people began to feel that the excitement was really just hype."
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Most MOOC participants already have degrees and live in developed countries. "These online classes aren't really reaching the poor," Wildavsky says. "They aren't reaching the uneducated.
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"Courses requiring extremely specialized or expert knowledge grant people access to ideas and concepts that they might not ever encounter otherwise," Curtis Bonk, an education professor at Indiana University, said via email. "With such new learning opportunities, one’s sense of self or identity as a learner is enhanced.
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"It's easy to deflate the over-the-top rhetoric that has characterized the advent of MOOCs," Wildavsky wrote in a recent article. "But the developing world has much to gain from this new educational era."
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