Online learning: how it can widen and formalise access to higher education

pcassuto | 01 décembre, 2012 00:32

By Claire Shaw. Online learning provides a way of studying for pleasure, opens up new ways of learning and offers the chance to participate in a social 'event'. Here are some thoughts from our recent Q&A.
MOOCs are opening up education to new solutions.
"The hype has a number of cool spin offs for learning researchers; it is bringing the power of open educational resources to the top of the agenda, by interesting both business and politicians in new forms of learning. It stimulates us to demonstrate that the learning isn't actually in the resources per se, but is in the engagement of the students with them. In the process; in the people." Peter Scott, director of the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University. Read more...