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Kev Harland

Week 11 Activity 4c Costs and elearning - 0 views

  • The most succinct summation of this question was provided by an accountant who was in my group a couple of years ago. She phrased it as: (£ consuming vs £ benefit)
johannetta

Will a degree made up of Moocs ever be worth the paper it's written on? | Higher Educat... - 1 views

  • Very few Moocs lead to any sort of officially recognised qualification, so the recent success of the University of the People in being permitted to award degrees to students studying for its tuition-free, online-only courses marks a departure for the sector.
  • The University of the People, for example, states that undergraduates will study in groups of 30 to 40
  • he big question is whether you can [offer degrees] without tutorial support, and so at lower cost.
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  • Moocs will have to change considerably to gain credibility and improve the quality of students' learning experience.
  • students will need to be extremely driven to get through.
  • The degree and quality of tutor interactions is seen as critical to any chance of success by others in the sector, too.
  • Mooc providers need to find ways to make the assessment richer, more meaningful and more reliable at scale for larger audiences."
  • These better options include courses from providers such as the Open University and Ed2Go that provide "quality education for specific certificate programs in a much more personalised setting at very competitive prices and, in many cases, to developing nations gratis."
Pat Townshend

http://www.sqw.co.uk/files/9613/8689/6430/Home_Access_Programme.pdf - 0 views

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    Evaluation of home access scheme
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