The OER Knowledge Cloud: Reflections On Stanford's Moocs

Reflections on Stanford's MOOCs

Published	February 2013
Journal	Communications of the ACM Volume 56, Issue 2, Pages 28-30
Publisher	ACM
Country	United States, North America

ABSTRACT

The recent wave of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has highlighted the potential for making educational offerings accessible at a global level. The attention MOOCs have received is well deserved, but it belies the fact that various forms of online education have existed for many years. Rather than attempting to catalogue the broad spectrum of online learning resources, we focus on a sampling of initiatives in online education-with an emphasis on our home institution, Stanford University, with which we are most familiar-highlighting some of the opportunities and challenges at hand.

Keywords

higher education · MOOC

Published at	New York
ISSN	0001-0782
Refereed	Yes
Rights	Copyright © 2018 by the ACM. All rights reserved.
DOI	10.1145/2408776.2408787
URL	http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2408776.2408787
Export options	BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar

Viewed by 378 distinct readers

CLOUD COMMUNITY REVIEWS

The evaluations below represent the judgements of our readers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Cloud editors.

Click a star to be the first to rate this document

▶ POST A COMMENT

Phi, Minh Tuan; Orsini-Jones, Marina; Smith, Simon

Autonomy is a highly debated concept in the field of language learning and teaching. It is argued here that the integration of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in tertiary education can help language teachers and ...

Match: reflections; MOOC

Open educational resources and change in higher education: Reflections from practice

Glennie, Jenny; Harley, Ken; Butcher, Neil; van Wyk, Trudy

In the last decade in particular, the promotion, sharing and use of open educational resources (OER) have been growing exponentially. However, as with any new phenomenon or paradigm, our knowledge of OER’s ...

Match: reflections; higher education

Uncovering what enables and constrains 'open practices' in the Global South: Reflections from the ROER4D Project

Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl

Match: reflections; MOOC

OpenCases: Catalogue of mini cases on open education in Europe

Lazetic, Predrag; Souto-Otero, Manuel; Shields, Robin; dos Santos, Andreia Inamorato; et al.

This catalogue contains 50 mini cases that highlight the practices of universities and educational institutions around open education in Europe. It showcases the different strategies followed by institutions that are ...

Match: higher education; MOOC

Disrupting and democratising higher education provision or entrenching academic elitism: Towards a model of MOOCs adoption at African universities

Rambe, Patient; Moeti, Mamello

Challenges of broadening access, escalating cost, maintaining desirable quality and enhancing meaningful learning experiences in African higher education (HE) have spurred debates on how to restructure higher education ...

Match: higher education; MOOC

Opportunities in online education -Staying ahead of the curve: The case of the MOOC

Wood, Michael T.

I propose to share with you today some personal thoughts about MOOCs. I claim no particular expertise or corner of the market. However, I have taught extensively in the classroom, online, and in the corporate boardroom. ...

Match: higher education; MOOC

On human terms – A first evaluation of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in ergonomics

Berglund, Martina; Osvalder, Anna-Lisa; Tartaglia, Riccardo; Albolino, Sara; et al.

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) 'Work and Technology on Human Terms' (www.onhumanterms.org) was launched in July 2017 with the aim to contribute to safer and healthier workplaces by increasing the knowledge about ...

Match: higher education; MOOC

Position papers for European cooperation on MOOCs

Cooperman, Larry; Dillenbourg, Pierre; van Valkenburg, Willem; Kos, Timo; et al.

An overview of position papers on the opportunities and characteristics for European cooperation as presented during the HOME conference in Porto November 2014 Based on an open call for position papers19 experts ...

Match: higher education; MOOC

MOOCs in Europe: Overview of papers representing a collective European response on MOOCs as presented during the HOME conference in Rome November 2015

Bang, Joergen; Dalsgaard, Christian; Kjaer, Arne; O’Donovan, Maria; et al.

Table of contents Foreword Part 1: Regional MOOC initiatives Building OOC layers on top of existing courses (M)OOCs in Iceland: Language and learning communities EduOpen network in Italy Part 2: Role media ...

Match: higher education; MOOC

Massive open online courses for Africa by Africa

Oyo, Benedict; Kalema, Billy Mathias; Conrad, Dianne; McGreal, Rory

Africa is known for inadequate access to all sorts of human needs including health, education, food, shelter, transport, security, and energy. Before the emergence of massive open online courses (MOOCs), open access to ...

Match: higher education; MOOC