Beyond MOOCs: Sustainable online learning in institutions

Beyond MOOCs: Sustainable online learning in institutions
Li Yuan, Stephen Powell, Bill Olivier, CETIS, January 22, 2014
Three themes emerge from recent MOOC experiments, write the authors:

• Openness – new approaches to online learning, including models for scalable provision that may generate revenues, and promote open learning
• Revenue models – different revenue models taking the established ideas from technology start-ups
• Service Disaggregation – experimentation with business models that include unbundling and re-bundling of courses and delivery related services.

There are some good tables in the document itself, including a nice distinction between xMOOC and cMOOC, different models of course provision, pedagogic dimensions, self-assessment, and emerging business models. More...