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Martin Weller is Professor of Educational Technology at the UK Open University. He chaired the OU's first major elearning course in 1999 with 15,000 students, and has been Director of the VLE and S...
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Great peace on new types of learners, such as leasure or drive-by learners and antagonistic learners, and the need to develop new quality measures for MOOCs
"One last plea – MOOCs are still a new kid on the block. Let them make mistakes, let them be experimental, let people play and explore in this space without tying it down with the types of quality overhead we already have in formal education."
"higher education filters on the way in, whereas MOOCs filter on the way out. The quality measures are therefore very different. Interesting discussion on how to assessthe quality of MOOCs and the motivation of MOOC users. However, one group of learners is not considered - those who may not be able ot access traditional higher education - due to a range of barriers (financial, physical etc). MOOCs havev the potential to remove those barriers.