Quality of MOOCs: Challenges – and hopes for improvement?

Quality of MOOCs: Challenges – and hopes for improvement?

The quality of MOOCs is challenged and questioned from the very early beginning. MOOCs are „Massive Open Online Courses“ and were introduced in the year 2008: The first MOOC was called „Connectivism and Connective Knowledge“ (CCK08) and organized by Stephen Downes and George Siemens. Many MOOCs followed leading to a peak in the year 2012 that was also called the „Year of the MOOCs“ by the New York Times. Currently the hype is over but the number of MOOCs and their online learners are continuously increasing.

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MOOQ Workshop on Quality of MOOCs at EC-TEL

The ICORE and MOOQ Workshop on Quality of MOOCs at EC-TEL is inviting you!

ec-tel_lyon_2016Join our interactive workshop on 13th of September 2016 at the EC-TEL Conference in Lyon!

The workshop is jointly organized by MOOQ and ICORE supported by UNESCO IITE, OEC and other organizations at the 11th EC-TEL Conference, the leading event on technology-enhanced learning.

The workshop title is: „How to improve Open Education with Openness for All? Towards a global joint initiative“

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