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What is Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC)

Chapter 576
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
MOOCs are relatively new to higher education and their usefulness are currently being debated. This chapter does not address their usefulness, but provides a potential pathway, which mobile learning can be integrated. MOOCs capitalize on the success of large learning management systems and enable professors to create video’s, learning objects and methods to encourage interaction of the 90,000 students who could be taking the course online at any point, free of charge.
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A One Year Federal Mobile Learning Initiative Review
Jace Hargis (Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE) and Cathy Cavanaugh (Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch576
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Chapter 472
The Role of Technology in the Transformation of Twenty-First Century Literacy Skills
MOOCs are platforms in which large numbers of students can enroll in courses and receive credit for their work ( New Media Consortium, 2013a ).
Published in Chapter: The Role of Technology in the Transformation of Twenty-First Century Literacy Skills; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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