[LINK] Mass Open Online Courseware

[David Boxall]

From: 
https://theconversation.edu.au/online-open-education-yes-this-is-the-game-changer-8078
> ... His crucial innovation was not free courseware, which was ten years old, but online grading in multiple choice format and certification at the end of the program.
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> Students weren’t able to be credited in conventional degrees but could receive a “Statement of Accomplishment” that carried the Stanford brand. It was not a substitute for Stanford degrees but a new kind of prestige credential adapted to the internet.
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> The course involved student-to-student tutorial discussions, work groups and support systems. In the MOOC format, queries can be routed through FAQs and students can assess each other. It’s free, dirt cheap to run, rigorous in standard and brings you the world experts.
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> Can universities make money out of MOOCs? As with Google, the free service creates a global public, which can become the platform for advertising,...
And if pedagogy conflicts with commerce?
> ... MOOCs could enforce an unprecedented level of global sameness in higher education. MOOCs mean the homogenisation (and in this case the Americanisation) of knowledge, learning and culture.

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