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Last week, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote with evangelical zeal about the arrival of Massive Online Open Courses, the free courses from top institutions available to students anywhere in the world. Not only would MOOCs be a huge industry in five years, he said, but financially strapped community colleges could use the online […]
Abstract Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have been growing in popularity with educational researchers, instructors, and learners in online environments. Online discussions are as important in MOOCs as in other online courses. Online discussions that occur in MOOCs are influenced by additional factors resulting from their volatile and voluntary participation structure. This article aims to […]
When Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent ripples through the higher education world last week by announcinge dX, a joint platform for massive online versions of their courses, many observers took it as a boon for access. And indeed, edX — and other massive open online course (MOOC) projects, such as Coursera […]
