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Christopher Sessums

MOOC's and the McDonaldization of Global Higher Education - WorldWise - The Chronicle o... - 0 views

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MOOC education higher education

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  • we don’t believe that MOOC’s were established with global engagement in mind. These entities are mostly about access.
  • issues of standardization vs. diversification.
  • MOOC’s do little to foster engagement or cross-cultural understanding, and in most cases don’t offer students a credential. By promoting centralized knowledge production, MOOC’s limit the spillover effects that can help build the academic infrastructure of developing nations.
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  • They strengthen the ivory towers by enabling a few elite institutions to broadcast their star courses to the masses from the comfort of their protected perches.
  • MOOC’s pose potential barriers to fostering global awareness and providing diverse educational experiences
  • universities as multinational entities
  • an exchange of people and an immersion in different cultural experiences.
  • a homogenizing effect that makes this sort of engagement unlikely.
  • transform higher education’s organizational structures,
  • being locally embedded enhances the opportunity for there to be local engagement, local knowledge spillover, and an overall improvement in a nation’s educational sector
  • it risks diminishing both the diversification of the higher-education sector and the advancement of globally engaged students and institutions.
Christopher Sessums

Massive Open Online Courses -- A Threat Or Opportunity To Universities? - Forbes - 0 views

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MOOC forbes higher education

shared by Christopher Sessums on 08 Oct 12 - No Cached
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    "The unbundling of learning, credentials, social interaction, facility access, and assessment will make it possible for institutions to establish new business models. "
Christopher Sessums

Into the Future With MOOC's - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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mooc moocs OER elearning higher education

shared by Christopher Sessums on 25 Sep 12 - No Cached
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    "burgeoning educational form"
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