Educational Technology

October 6, 2013

SPOCs Are MOOC Game Changers

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:35 am

by Jim Shimabukuro, ETC Journal

They’re billed as SPOCs, or small private online courses, and they’re being led by Harvard and UC-Berkeley. According to Rob Lue1, Harvard’s edX director, “We’re already in a post-Mooc era,”2 and SPOCs are the next generation. Considering the specs on SPOCs, however, SOOC3 — for selective open online course — may be a better fit for what appears to be a strong candidate for nextgen status. The problem with the moniker is that SPOCs aren’t always private.

http://etcjournal.com/2013/09/26/spocs-are-mooc-game-changers/

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