by Tim Dodd, Financial Review
Australian universities are joining the global trend to offer credit towards a degree to students who complete free online courses. The massive open online course (or MOOC) World Music offered by Open2Study now attracts bachelor degree credit at James Cook University. James Cook University school of creative arts lecturer David Salisbury, who presents the four-week World Music MOOC on Open2Study, said awarding credit for the online course was a fair reward for a student’s effort. The course introduces students to music from four different cultures – African, Indian, Latin American and Indonesian – and so far over 8000 students have enrolled in it. Dr Salisbury said he was rewarding students who completed the MOOC with 10 per cent bonus marks if they were enrolled in a degree subject that included the world music material.
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