Download e-book for iPad: To MOOC or Not to MOOC: How Can Online Learning Help to by Sarah Porter

Scarcely every week is going via with no assurance within the united kingdom and foreign media concerning the newest MOOC revelation. regardless of a few major tasks within the dotcom period, on-line studying has by some means by no means introduced on its promise to revolutionize schooling. To MOOC or to not MOOC explores the historical past of MOOCs and analyses the present MOOC context by way of describing six associations and the tale in their engagement with MOOCs. all the various form of establishment in flip, it analyses the approaches in the back of their determination to have interaction with on-line studying and MOOCs, how the MOOC undertaking is controlled and led, and discusses concerns comparable to caliber insurance, governance and partnerships. Chapters draw jointly and examine the knowledge and draw out suggestion for associations, to assist them make offerings approximately the best way to reply to MOOCs and different high-impact adjustments in electronic schooling. The e-book comprises checklists and making plans instruments to help approach and making plans, and concludes with a destiny examine MOOCs  exploring a number of the attainable tendencies that can effect upon larger schooling, similar to enterprise versions, info and analytics, studying layout and rivals within the MOOC marketplace.

• Aimed at larger academic execs who're drawn to the strategic significance and power of on-line learning
• Written from an knowing of the strategic context for senior managers in universities
• Focus upon a tremendous development in know-how and schooling illustrated by means of concrete examples of actual perform in institutions
• Implement case reviews to attract out conclusions not just approximately on-line studying but in addition decision-making and innovation