The Potential Social, Economic and Environmental Benefits of MOOCS: Operational and Historical Comparisons with a Massive "Closed Online" Course

Autor/inn/en	Lane, Andy; Caird, Sally; Weller, Martin
Titel	The Potential Social, Economic and Environmental Benefits of MOOCS: Operational and Historical Comparisons with a Massive "Closed Online" Course
Quelle	In: Open Praxis, 6 (2014) 2, S.115-123 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1369-9997
Schlagwörter	Online Courses; Higher Education; Comparative Analysis; Open Universities; Access to Education; Conservation (Environment); Educational Objectives; Educational Policy; Educational Practices; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Online course; Online-Kurs; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Offene Universität; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungspraxis; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	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. [This paper was presented at the 2014 OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Conference, held in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in April 2014.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01