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McGreal, Rory

This evaluation report reflects on the activities of three Regional Centres (RCs) established by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and regional partners. Regional Centres engage in capacity building and expansion of ...

Match: established

SCORE2020

The SCORE2020 project focused on (regional) support structures in the development and delivery of Open Education and especially of MOOCs. In total, thirteen intellectual outputs are ...

Match: MOOC accreditation

Barber, Michael; Donnelly, Katelyn; Rizvi, Saad

This publication argues that the next 50 years could see a golden age for higher education, but only if all players seize the initiative and act ambitiously. If not, an avalanche of change will sweep the system ...

Match: Coursera

Leach, Matthew; Hadi, Syed Munib

Much is made of the diversity for MOOCs learners—with their varied motivations and interests; yet MOOCs are often run and judged on the assumption that learners would progress through the course in its entirety, to ...

Match: digital badges

Watters, Audrey

Barely a week has gone by this year without some MOOC-related news. Much like last year, massive open online courses have dominated ed-tech conversations. But if 2012 was, as The New York Times decreed, the year of the ...

Match: Coursera

Ross, Jen; Sinclair, Christine; Knox, Jeremy; Bayne, Siân; Macleod, Hamish

The way teachers are represented in relation to massive open online courses (MOOCs) has created a limited and unhelpful characterization of an important role. The key argument put forward in this position paper is that ...

Match: Coursera

Zheng, Qinhua; Chen, Li; Burgos, Daniel

MOOCs' high dropout rate has been widely criticized. It is one of the measures to reduce the dropout rate by establishing a perfect learning support service system and enhancing the learning support service capacity. ...

Match: drop-out rates

Engle, Will; UBC

UBC recently published a report on the design and delivery of its initial MOOC pilot. UBC delivered its first five MOOCs on the Coursera platform during the spring and summer of 2013. The open courses provided thousands ...

Match: Coursera

White, Su; Davis, Hugh; Dickens, Kate; León, Manuel; Sánchez-Vera, Mar M.

Within the current educational landscape, Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have stimulated extensive interest and hype in a short time. It has been asserted that these open courses are no more than a prelude to the ...

Match: MOOC attrition

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

The notion that MOOCs and other online courses will reduce the costs of providing higher education and the price students pay for it is a key part of the presumed “promise” of online learning. The question of ...

Match: MOOC business model