Education & Technology in an Age of Pandemics (revisited)
MOOCs — massively open online courses of the sort that can simultaneously enroll thousands, even tens of thousands, of learners simultaneously — have been a hot topic of discussion for a few years now in both the worlds of education and ‘international development’ (and, for what it’s worth, the subject of numerous related posts here on the World Bank’s EduTech blog). Recent news that edX, one of the prominent MOOC platforms, is to start offering courses aimed at high school students suggests that the potential usefulness and impact of things like MOOCs may soon extend beyond the realm of higher education, out of which MOOCs originally emerged and where most related activity has occurred to date.
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