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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Involving little more than knowledge transmission and perhaps a quiz at the end, the xMOOC is widely seen as replicating old-fashioned lectures and exams. There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Involving little more than knowledge transmission and perhaps a quiz at the end, the xMOOC is widely seen as replicating old-fashioned lectures and exams. There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs.

OER 226
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eLearning Startup Opportunities

Tony Karrer

I've talked before about a world in which the Best Lecture is available to us anywhere. If we are going to force students to sit through lectures, shouldn't they be the absolute best lecture? Tell me how you are going to compete with Physics Lectures by Professor Lewin? Of course, should it even be a lecture?