Are Moocs the best chance we have to satisfy a global thirst for education?

Posted on Friday, January 24th, 2014

Extremelearningglobal“There are certainly Mooc junkies, who take them for no other reason than they’re free and they like hanging out,” grins Dr Ben Brabon of Edgehill university, whose massive open online course in vampire fiction is one of only two accredited Moocs currently on offer in the UK.

Brabon isn’t denigrating people who enrol on every brand new shiny Mooc going: he’s simply pointing out the motivation that prompts certain individuals to sign up. When a course is open entry – Moocs have no enrolment criteria and no fees to pay – then participants are going to behave very differently to student in a traditional higher education setting.

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