HEC Paris launches 'Massive Open Online Course' on Coursera

By Hemali Chhapia. MUMBAI: HEC Paris has become the first Business School in France to launch a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) hosted on the Coursera platform. In light of this, HEC Paris endeavors to boost its academic experience and allow its teaching to go forth, beyond the confines of the campus.
The concept of MOOCs - free, universally accessible knowledge - appeals to HEC Paris as a way of expanding its expertise and knowledge, and sharing them with a wider, global audience. Following the success of its iTunes U platform (which has totaled over 2 million downloads in just three years) HEC Paris is experimenting with another new model for education in a bid to improve teaching via technology. More...