Reflections on Stanford's MOOCs
Journal Article
Cooper, Steve and Sahami, Mehran

PublishedFebruary 2013
JournalCommunications of the ACM
Volume 56, Issue 2, Pages 28-30
PublisherACM
CountryUnited 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 atNew York
ISSN0001-0782
RefereedYes
RightsCopyright © 2018 by the ACM. All rights reserved.
DOI10.1145/2408776.2408787
URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2408776.2408787
Export optionsBibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar


Viewed by 240 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
SIMILAR RECORDS

Integrating a MOOC into the MA curriculum: An ‘expert’ student’s reflections on blended learning
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

MOOCS and open education: Implications for higher education
Yuan, Li; Powell, Stephen
Executive Summary 1.1. THE FOCUS OF THE REPORT This report sets out to help decision makers in higher education institutions gain a better understanding of the phenomenon of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and ...
Match: higher education; mooc

Assessing the effect of Massive Open Online Courses as remedial courses in higher education
Agasisti, Tommaso; Azzone, Giovanni; Soncin, Mara
The current study assesses the effect of using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) with the specific goal of providing remedial education. The data refer to an Italian flagship university, Politecnico di Milano, where a ...
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

Emergence and development of MOOCs
Zheng, Qinhua; Chen, Li; Burgos, Daniel
The e-learning has until quite recently been marked by considerable attention paid to MOOCs. One of the disruptive innovations introduced by MOOCs is the open access to the process of teaching and learning. The impact ...
Match: higher education; mooc

The future of MOOCs: Adaptive learning or business model?
Daniel, John; Vázquez Cano, Esteban; Gisbert, Mercè
Currently, many MOOCs are designed as a collection of videos with a forum using some traditional distance learning models, but they do not promote adaptive and personalized learning. These features, together with the ...
Match: higher education; mooc

MOOC usage: A Review and Prospect
Kulkarni, Savita; Bhattacharya, Shubhasheesh
The purpose of this research is to investigate the combined impact of main components of massive open online courses (MOOCs), such as MOOC kinds, instructional design, and learner-related characteristics, on actual MOOC ...
Match: higher education; mooc

Impacts of MOOCs on online learning and campus-based course design
Phan, Trang; Tomei, Lawrence; Milheim, Karen L.
There are two lines of expert debates on whether MOOCs could improve the overall quality of college and university education in America. Experts like Fiona Hollands believe MOOCs have made positive influence in ...
Match: higher education; mooc