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Massive open online courses – MOOCs – offered by top universities have expanded worldwide over the last three years, gaining students globally for courses designed in the United States and elsewhere and disseminated globally on platforms like Coursera, edX and the British-based FutureLearn. 
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New Big Data course offered by MIT will cost $495 to enroll. But that's still an incredible bargain.
Alfredo Corell's insight:
It was inevitable? it was pretented on the long run? is this supoused free eduation still a bargain? Is this the MOOC's future?
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Class Central is a free online course aka MOOC aggregator from top universites like Stanford, MIT, Harvard, etc. offered via Coursera, Udacity, edX, & others
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
January 23, 2013 5:59 PM
Follow your favourite universities. Find out the MOOC you're looking for on Class Central, a comple collection of courses in progress, just announced or future courses...
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Daphne Koller, one of the two founders of Coursera, describes some of the key features of the Coursera MOOCs, and the lessons she has learned to date about teaching and learning from these courses. The video is well worth watching, just for this.
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January 27, 2013 3:36 PM
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MOOCs and online education are a technology with potentially revolutionary implications—but without a precise plan for realizing that potential.
Alfredo Corell's insight:
In 2012, Stanford president John Hennessy pronounced that the MOOC was going to be “transformative to education.” But, he added, “We don’t really understand how yet.” Two years later, the landscape remains much the same:MOOCs are a technology with potentially revolutionary implications for education, but without a precise plan for realizing that potential. One way of getting there could be for the leaders of the MOOC movement to look more closely at old methods, from when education was less massive, less open, and entirely offline.
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What are MOOCs? “The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed” said William Gibson, that is certainly true of MOOCs. We have MOOC mania but ‘all MOOCs are not created equal’ an...
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A proposal of MOOC's classification: you could find out that a give course could be simultaneousely in a couple of types.
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Many conventional MOOCs are developed and designed for Western teaching and learning experiences, says Auh, the lead project designer for MOOC 2.0. “But the general consensus here [among those working on MOOC 2.0] is that MOOCs education must be a collective effort from all parts of the world.”
What is important, according to Auh, is that to avoid a “type of neo-colonialism”, receiving countries must collaborate in devising the MOOCs their students will study.
“The stance of MOOC 2.0 is higher education should find ways to address the needs of those at the bottom of the pyramid while being sensitive to their culture,” Auh told University World News.