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Christopher Sessums

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

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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

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

Top Schools Move to Offer Free Courses Online - WSJ.com - 0 views

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MOOC wsj

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    "Twelve top universities Tuesday joined a venture that offers free Internet courses world-wide, in a bet by some of the most prestigious institutions globally on online education."
Christopher Sessums

Coursera strikes MOOC licensing deal with Antioch University | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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mooc MOOCs coursera

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    ""It's an LMS [learning management system] that's wrapped around a very high-quality course," says Koller, the co-founder. "It's not just the box, it's a course in a box.""
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Harvard Asks Alumni to Donate Time to Free Online Course - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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MOOC alumni higher education

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  • it asked alumni who had taken the course at the university to volunteer as online mentors and discussion group managers.
  • About 10 of Dr. Nagy’s former teaching fellows in the class will direct discussions, with help from a larger, still-undetermined number of former students. Both groups will work unpaid; the e-mail to alumni said the work would require three to five hours a week.
  • About a dozen recent former students were recruited before Monday’s e-mail was sent, Ms. Filos said. Those who express interest will be screened, “and they have to be brought up to speed on the material,”
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  • Most of the assessments will be done by fellow students, an approach taken in many other MOOCs
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    tying alumni into online courses. bout time!
Christopher Sessums

MOOCs - The revolution has begun, says Moody's - University World News - 0 views

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mooc MOOCs opencourseware higher education

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    "elite institutions are positioned to capitalise most effectively on the MOOC platform, by increasing their global presence and deriving greater credit benefits from new markets."
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