The added institutions and courses mean that Coursera will now offer more than 200 MOOCs.
But the big question about MOOCs has been whether they would someday replace costly college degrees.
At the same time, MOOCs pose a huge potential threat to traditional university programs.
Another source of concern is whether MOOCs can be effective in all subject areas.
Despite the challenges to universities posed by MOOCs, there are great advantages to them as well.
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It is at the Masters level that traditional universities will first feel the effect of MOOCs.
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And by moving lecturing online, MOOCs allow in-person time to be more interactive, dynamic and valuable.
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The big question about MOOCs is whether the free courses will someday replace costly college degrees.
MOOCs have an enormous dropout rate, in some cases as high as nine out of 10 students.
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Edinburgh University is offering what are known as massive open online courses (Moocs) through the Coursera consortium.
Despite what some see as a threat to higher education, MOOCs will only help it get better.
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Early MOOCs have been offered free of charge to anyone in the world with an internet connection.
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Colleges and universities are rushing to offer free online classes known as "massive open online courses, " or MOOCs.
Students can access its massive, open, online courses (or MOOCs) free of charge.
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Some schools are starting to offer class credit for MOOCs for a fee.
The union-dominated teaching corps can be expected to be just as hostile as college professors to moving K-12 to MOOCs.
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The clearest example of the productivity effect of these technologies is the explosion of massive open online courses, or MOOCs.
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Some California faculty have also protested plans in the state higher education system to use MOOCs to supplement teaching on campus.
Using MOOCs as a recruiting tool is a way for the schools offering the MOOCs to profit from the free courses.
The OCL4Ed incorporates features used by the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to scale peer-learning support for thousands of concurrent students.
Massive open online courses, or so-called MOOCs, are opening up access to classes at a growing number of colleges and universities.
By providing free access to anyone with an Internet connection, MOOCs facilitate the dissemination of knowledge to unprecedented numbers of people.
Much as early movies were made with cameras in front of Broadway shows, current MOOCs are mainly professors droning into a camera.
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Though the news is a major step for MOOCs, free online courses are still a long way from replacing costly degree programs.
These have become known as Massive Open Online Courses - or MOOCs.
One is to celebrate the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) like the onset of the textbooks coupled with public libraries.
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However, what has really blown the virtual lid of online education numbers was the 2011 introduction of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
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There is room for both MOOCS and this type of university experience.
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Think of MOOCs as modules of knowledge or content packaged together with high-quality pedagogy, student-student interaction, and specialized tools for scalable faculty-student interaction.
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If students can get college credit for completing MOOCs, that changes the equation dramatically and poses new cost competition to for-profit online schools.
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