Value for money is one of the central factors influencing consumer choice, and higher education is no exception, especially when the cost of studying for a university degree rises at levels well above the rate of inflation. The global financial crisis has had a significant impact on the UK economy, prompting a raft of belt-tightening initiatives by the government, including changes to higher education funding policies and increases in tuition fees for undergraduate study. The financial crisis has also negatively impacted employment prospects for recent graduates. The net effect is a trend towards larger numbers of British students looking abroad for study opportunities.
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In a recent blog on University World News, Rahul Choudaha argues that MOOC’s (massive open online courses) could lead to the decline of international branch campuses. There is some logic to this argument. Access to online learning is available just about anywhere, and economies of scale as represented by the MOOC’s can make education incredibly inexpensive. Branch campuses, on the other hand, double down on geography and are often more expensive than other local options. But does that make MOOC’s and branch campuses mutually exclusive options and interchangeable entities for the provision of higher education? We don’t think so. Delete the scoop?
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Free Massive Open Online Courseware – MOOC – is less than a year old but it is already clear this will be the game changer in higher education worldwide. Right now it is reverberating through the world’s universities like a tectonic shock. Delete the scoop?
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, (OECD). (2006). Guidelines for Quality Provision in Cross-border Higher Education. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/27/51/35779480.pdf. Phillips, R. Delete the scoop?
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MOOCs challenge higher education's business modelsUniversity World NewsAdd to that what governments and universities say about the need for widening participation in higher education, the challenge will be how they manage to harness what is now... Delete the scoop?
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In the last two years, a number of various MOOC platforms have been introduced and received a significant amount of attention in higher education news outlets. The big “bomb” arrived in the end of 2011 when Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that they would start broadcasting a portion of its courses for free, openly on the internet – the MITx initiative. By now, the MITx has led to the development of edX that includes courses from MIT, Harvard and UC Berkeley. Delete the scoop?
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excellent work, as usual, by WES