[Open-education] Are MOOCs instrumental to open up education?

Wed Sep 9 09:36:35 UTC 2015

Hi,

The Open Education Handbook states that “open education is about removing barriers to education” (see http://booktype.okfn.org/open-education-handbook-2014/what-is-open-education/ ). Also Tony bates says that “An essential characteristic of open education is the removal of barriers to learning” (see http://www.tonybates.ca/2015/02/16/what-do-we-mean-by-open-in-education/ ).

This leads to a question like “Are MOOCs instrumental to open up education?”

Together with Fred Mulder we elaborated on that question in the book chapter “Opening Up Education and the OpenupEd initiative” in recently published book “MOOCs and Open Education Around the World”. To this end we examined if MOOCs indeed (can) contribute by:

1.       All unnecessary barriers to learning should be removed, both at the entry into learning and along the learning path.

2.       Learners should be facilitated with appropriate incentives to make progress and to succeed in their learning efforts

The book chapter is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at EADTU website:
http://www.eadtu.eu/home/policy-areas/open-education-and-moocs/news/263-are-moocs-instrumental-to-open-up-education

Your reflections are welcome.

Best regards,

Darco Jansen
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