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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 business model

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

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

Porter, David; Beale, Russell; Daniel, John; McGreal, Rory; Prabhakar, T V

A MOOC (massive open online course) is an online course that normally requires no prior qualifications for entry, can be accessed by anyone who has an Internet connection, and includes large or very large numbers of ...

Match: MOOC business model

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

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

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

Cochrane, Thomas; Narayan, Vickel; Partridge, Helen; Davis, Kate; Thomas, J.

This paper outlines the design stage of a project that reimagines lecturer professional development around a network of communities of practice scaffolded by a cMOOC (connectivist Massive Open Online Course), where ...

Match: MOOC accreditation