Online Learning Update

October 5, 2013

Harvard plans to boldly go with ‘Spocs’

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

By Sean Coughlan, BBC

Keep up, keep up. If you’ve only just caught on to the concept of online university courses called Moocs, then you’re in danger of falling behind again. Harvard, one of the world’s most influential universities, is moving on to Spocs – which stands for small private online courses. Nothing to do with Star Trek and sombre Vulcans, but plenty to do with ambitions “to boldly go”. And could these be the real deal? The academic chairing Harvard’s online experiments says we are already “post-Mooc”.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24166247

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