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MOOCs

What is it?

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free web based open access online courses aimed at large-scale participation.

Educational Advantages:

  • flexibility
  • interactive learning
  • creates an online ‘community’ for participants (students, lecturers, tutors)
  • enables large-scale participation.

Generally students completing a MOOC course do not receive credit. Universities work with educational technology companies such as Coursera, Udacity and edX to create MOOCs.

 Examples:

Have a go!

In pairs/rows, discuss the following questions. Enter key points from your discussion in the box below and click submit.

  1. What are some of the challenges of MOOCs? What opportunities or challenges do you think MOOCs will have on libraries?
  2. Have a look at the courses offered via Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/#courses.
    Note down some of the Universities using MOOCs and the courses offered.

 




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