What Can Residential Research-‐based Universities Learn …? What Can Residential, Research-based Universities Learn about Their Core Com- Petencies from Moocs (massive Open Online Course)?
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Over the past five years Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have ignited the imagination of venture capitalists, politicians, non-traditional students and the public more than most other e-learning trends for the past decades. There have been not only hopes to „bring top-notch courses to the world’s poorest citizens and reshaping the way all students learn” but even promises to provide world class education to a billion people (edX announcement May 2, 2012).
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تاریخ انتشار 2014