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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

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

Soffer, Tal; Cohen, Anat; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne

The study presented in this paper examines the feasibility of using MOOCs as a learning environment in academic courses. This paper focuses on the students who participated in two MOOCs offered by Tel Aviv University ...

Match: Coursera

Malin, Joel R.

In this article, I apply autoethnography to recount and analyze my experiences as a recent enrollee and course completer of a massive open online course (MOOC). Research surrounding MOOCs heretofore has been ...

Match: MOOC attrition

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

Schaffhauser, Dian

Dhawal Shah, founder of Class Central, has been tracking the machinations of the MOOC business since before it was a business. Here, he provides perspective on the revenue side of open and online ...

Match: Coursera

Smith, Becky; Eng, Min; Cheung, Simon K. S.; Fong, Joseph; et al.

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have been radically changing the direction of online education in the last few years. Although sharing many common features, there has been an emergence of two distinct varieties of ...

Match: Coursera

Venegas Muggli, Juan Ignacio; Westermann, Werner

This article examines the effect of two Open Educational Resources (OER) - Khan Academy Collection and a teacher-authored open textbook - on mathematical course performance and attendance amongst first-year higher ...

Match: Khan Academy

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

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