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shared by Christopher Sessums on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached

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we don’t believe that MOOC’s were established with global engagement in mind. These entities are mostly about access.
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issues of standardization vs. diversification.
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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.
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MOOC’s pose potential barriers to fostering global awareness and providing diverse educational experiences
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universities as multinational entities
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an exchange of people and an immersion in different cultural experiences.
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a homogenizing effect that makes this sort of engagement unlikely.
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transform higher education’s organizational structures,
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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
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it risks diminishing both the diversification of the higher-education sector and the advancement of globally engaged students and institutions.
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