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
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