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Ted O'Neill

MOOCs and Digital Diploma Mills: Forgetting Our History | iterating toward openness - 1 views

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mooc Coursera Terms of Service business model

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  • Now play that record backwards, as the first generation of MOOCs (cMOOCs) – that allowed anyone from anywhere to participate however they liked in experiences built from openly licensed course materials – gives way to a new generation of walled gardens that call themselves “open” but require registration, use copyrighted materials, and take investment capital. They even prohibit students from using their services in the most useful ways: “You may not take any Online Course offered by Coursera or use any Statement of Accomplishment as part of any tuition-based or for-credit certification or program for any college, university, or other academic institution without the express written permission from Coursera” (Coursera Terms of Use). David Noble saw something like this coming. I’m not sure he was wrong.
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      Ted O'Neill on 21 Apr 13
       
      The Coursera Terms of Service explicitly break the first O of MOOC. This is the bait and switch and if it works will result in the hollowing out of higher education
Ted O'Neill

At Educause, a discussion about OER | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Ted O'Neill on 08 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • The missing piece is a caveat in Coursera’s terms of service that prohibits the use of Coursera’s MOOCs for anything but informal education.
  • “You may not take any Online Course offered by Coursera,” stipulate the terms, “or use any Letter of Completion as part of any tuition-based or for-credit certification or program for any college, university, or other academic institution without the express written permission from Coursera.”
  • The nonprofit MOOC provider, edX, has made "openness" a major part of its PR message, often to position itself as the more collaborative and less money-oriented player in the market. But edX's terms of service also place limits on the extent to which outsiders can avail themselves of edX content. "Unless otherwise expressly stated on the Site, the texts, exams, video, images and other instructional materials provided with the courses offered on this Site are for your personal use in connection with those courses only," read the site's legal notice.
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  • In any case, the same pool of chief academic officers was largely confident that OER had the potential to save their institutions money -- 65 percent said it could.
  • That sort of faith is unusual for a relatively new type of academic resource, especially one with such an ambiguous definition, said Seaman.
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