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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

As the latest edition of Educause Review indicates, universities are fee-for-service businesses. There’s nowhere to hide on the global stage, and cutting-edge expertise will be one of the few aspects that a university will have to distinguish itself from the others. Universities will finally accept they are service providers.

OER 279
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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

As the latest edition of Educause Review indicates, universities are fee-for-service businesses. There’s nowhere to hide on the global stage, and cutting-edge expertise will be one of the few aspects that a university will have to distinguish itself from the others. Universities will finally accept they are service providers.

OER 224
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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

ID Reflections

The OER movement was the trigger for the MOOCs then. My concern is that organizations will jump onto the MOOC bandwagon gunning for a platform with a set of courses, much like when organizations tried to become social businesses by putting an enterprise collaboration platform in place and claiming to have become an E2.0

PKM 157
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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

However, for people who are in the business of learning solutions , there are going to be growing opportunities to differentiate with content and solutions accessible from more devices. Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium. Of course, I do. How can I address X? Do a search on something like “instructional design”.