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Wherefore Art Thou MOOC: Defining Massive Open Online Courses
Although MOOCs are a much-discussed topic in higher education, these conversations do not often include details regarding the nuanced nature of these courses. What do we mean when we refer to MOOCs?
Stephanie J Blackmon, Claire H. Major
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Participation of Latin America in MOOCs: Exploring Trends Across Providers
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have become popular in various regions of the world through the years. Since 2008, this phenomenon has received plenty of attention from higher education and universities across countries began to produce these courses.
Jenner, M. +9 more
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Exploring the Usage of MOOCs in Higher Education Institutions [PDF]
This article analyses the current usage of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in HEIs. First, a literature review is performed to identify and classify the recent developments in the area and to characterize the most used platforms and courses ...
Teixeira, Leonor +2 more
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The Demand for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC): Evidence from Russian Education
The paper examines issues connected with the implementation of MOOCs in teaching, motivation to study on these courses and the attitudes of the students and faculty towards the possible substitution of university courses for MOOCs.
Yana Roshchina +2 more
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In today’s Higher Education environment, when educators are talking about disruptive innovation, they are usually talking about MOOCs. The term MOOC was first used in 2008. MOOCs are a web-based form of distance education. One of the recent news articles
Kinash, Shelley
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Government and sector-level tertiary e-learning initiatives [PDF]
This report gives an overview of the literature published between 2004 and 2013 relating to government and sector-level tertiary e-learning initiatives in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Peter Guiney
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New Perspectives on Great Questions: What can MOOCs Tell Us? [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to consider the role of massive open online courses (MOOCs) as a source of rich natural language data to be mined and analysed, thereby providing new perspectives and insights to questions, theories or experiences in relation to ...
Babicova, I., Robertshaw, D.
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Les MOOCs, révolution ou désillusion? [PDF]
Annoncés avec fracas en 2012, les MOOCS – massive open online courses – devaient porter en eux les germes d’une triple révolution, technologique, économique et pédagogique.
Rapp, Lucien
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Exploring Business Models for MOOCs in Higher Education [PDF]
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) potentially challenge the traditional dominance of brick and mortar institutions as providers of quality higher education.
Burd, EL, Reisman, S, Smith, SP
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Challenges about MOOCs in Teacher Training: Differences between On-Site and Open University Students [PDF]
MOOCs seem to be a good way to deliver training to a large number of teachers and to facilitate their professional development in those areas whose skills are scarce, requires an update or needs further deepening.
García-Barrera, Alba +2 more
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