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K-12 Moocs Must Address Equity, Norman Eng
K-12 Moocs Must Address Equity, Norman Eng
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Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, the new wave of distance education offered by elite institutions like Harvard and MIT, are moving into high schools, and—contrary to what many think—that could be a problem.
A New Polemic: Libraries, Moocs, And The Pedagogical Landscape, Nora Almeida
A New Polemic: Libraries, Moocs, And The Pedagogical Landscape, Nora Almeida
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The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has emerged in the past few years as the poster child of the online higher education revolution. Lauded and derided, MOOCs (depending on who you ask) represent the democratization of education on a global scale, an overblown trend, or the beginning of the end of the traditional academic institution. MOOCs have gained so much critical traction because they have succeeded in unmooring educational exchanges and setting them adrift in the sea of the internet. Although the MOOC is a new and evolving platform, it has already upended facets of education in which librarians are …