Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Three themes emerge from recent MOOC experiments, write the authors:

  • Openness – new approaches to online learning, including models for scalable provision that may generate revenues, and promote open learning
  • Revenue models – different revenue models taking the established ideas from technology start-ups
  • Service Disaggregation – experimentation with business models that include unbundling and re-bundling of courses and delivery related services.

There are some good tables in the document itself, including a nice distinction between xMOOC and cMOOC, different models of course provision, pedagogic dimensions, self-assessment, and emerging business models. (The preview tool said I had exceeded my bandwidth limit - I don't see why people use those user-hostile 'preview' tools). Direct link (20 page PDF).

Today: 1064 Total: 1071 [Direct link] [Share]

Image from the website
View full size


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: Mar 29, 2024 10:44 a.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes