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| Subject: | Cetis paper: Beyond MOOCs: Sustainable Online Learning in Institutions |
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| Date: | Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:24:04 +0000 |
| From: | Christina Smart <[log in to unmask]> |
Yesterday Cetis published a white paper exploring
how institutions can benefit from MOOCs (Massive Open Online
Courses) within their own provision. This paper, Beyond MOOCs:
Sustainable Online Learning in Institutions by Li Yuan,
Stephen Powell and Bill Olivier follows their popular paper MOOCs and Open Education:
Implications for Higher Education published in March 2013.
The Beyond MOOCs paper discusses how lessons learned from
running MOOCs can be applied within institutions to offer
flexible opportunities for learners and new revenue streams. The
paper states:
“The key
opportunity for institutions is to take the concepts
developed by the MOOC experiment to date and use them to
improve the quality of their face-to-face and online
provision, and to open up access to higher education. Most
importantly, the understanding gained should be used to
inform diversification strategies including the development
of new business models and pedagogic approaches that take
full advantage of digital technologies”
Yuan, Powell and
Olivier identify three key themes that universities and
colleges could take advantage of: Openness, Revenue Models and
Service Disaggregation. As a result of the MOOC movement new
opportunities are now available in terms of technology
options, pedagogy and also learner choices. The authors
discuss how institutions are taking advantage of MOOCs to
re-evaluate and reposition their organisations in a variety of
ways.
The paper is
available from the Cetis publications site:
Beyond MOOCs:
Sustainable Online Learning in Institutions
On her blog Li Yuan
sets out the background
to
the paper.
-- Dr Christina Smart Cetis Editor [log in to unmask] http://www.cetis.ac.uk