Open Course, Open Education. How much do you know about MOOCs?
Open Access Now 2013-04-22
Nothing is hotter in the education world right now than the massive open online course or MOOC. MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course and is a model for delivering course online, free to any person with no limit on attendance. The recent development started from three courses offered by Stanford University in fall 2011, each of which had an enrollment of about 100,000. Now hundreds of MOOCs are offered by institutions through the world and the number keeps increasing. Here is a list of MOOCs offered by the best university and entities http://www.mooc-list.com/
A great deal of discussion has been going around MOOCs about its value proposition, issue to consider, potential development, business model, policy, copyright concerns, technology, etc. If you are interested in exploring this topic, here are a few resources that you can start with.
The Chronicle of Higher Education MOOC Resources
The Devlin MOOC discussion series (Youtube videos)