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OPEN PRAXIS
卷 6, 期 2, 页码 115-123出版社
INT COUNCIL OPEN & DISTANCE EDUCATION
DOI: 10.5944/openpraxis.6.2.113
关键词
MOOCs; online education; policy and practice; environmental impact; social impact; economic impact
资金
- ESRC [ES/F028180/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have recently become a much discussed development within higher education. Much of this debate focuses on the philosophical and operational similarities and differences between the types of MOOCs that have emerged to date, the learner completion rates and how they can be sustained. In contrast there has been much less discussion about how such courses do, or do not, fit in with existing higher education policy and practice in terms of the social, economic and environmental benefits. This paper begins to address this issue by comparing and contrasting current MOOCs with one large population ICT-enhanced, mostly online Open University UK course presented a decade earlier and how they have both served, or might serve, broader social, economic or environmental objectives. The paper concludes that while MOOCs are forcing a re-conceptualisation of higher education study, much can also be learned from previous and existing large population mainly online courses from open universities.
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