https://ensr.oii.ox.ac.uk/two-years-after-the-nyts-year-of-the-mooc-how-much-do-we-actually-know-about-them/ Understanding public policy online Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://ensr.oii.ox.ac.uk/two-years-after-the-nyts-year-of-the-mooc-how-much-do-we-actually-know-about-them/#comment-17 Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:22:21 +0000 http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/?p=2955#comment-17 The MOOC culture has yet to find its “customs” like book binding eventually made e.g. a “frontispiece” mandatory. The real revolution, like with cars and telephones (who did the owner of the first telephone connect to?), is when people become “accustomed” to something. And that must inevitably be, in my mind, like with everyone sharing a currency that can be exchanged anywhere in the world to buy the same candy bar or water or petrol anywhere in the world, when credits for MOOC attendance can be shared across all nations, continents and institutions of higher learning. Then a student in Ruanda, on a mobile device as he/she has no landline, can eventually study “at Harvard”, collect a few points from Oxford/England, Sorbonne/Paris etc. etc. and eventually, maybe, graduate from e.g. Kairo university to receive, in due time, a Nobel Prize in Stockholm. We are not there … yet.

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