Massive Open Online Courses: Innovation in Education?

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  • George Siemens
چکیده

Researchers have extensively chronicled the trends and challenges in higher education (Altbach et al. 2009). MOOCs appear to be as much about the collective grasping of universities’ leaders to bring higher education into the digital age as they are about a particular method of teaching. In this chapter, I won’t spend time commenting on the role of MOOCs in educational transformation or even why attention to this mode of delivering education has received unprecedented hype (rarely has higher education as a system responded as rapidly to a trend as it has responded to open online courses). Instead, this chapter details different MOOC models and the underlying pedagogy of each.

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تاریخ انتشار 2013