Could Remixing Old MOOCs Give New Life to Free Online Education?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Could Remixing Old MOOCs Give New Life to Free Online Education?
Jeffrey R. Young, EdSurge, 2019/03/22
Remixing open educational resources has been invented by a Harvard professor. As EdSurge reports, "The idea comes from Robert Lue, a biology professor at Harvard University who was the founding faculty director of HarvardX, the college’s effort to build MOOCs. He’s leading a new platform called LabXChange that aims to let professors, teachers or anyone mix together their own free online course from pieces of other courses." Until this point, we have not really had any idea what to do with our old MOOCs, and could only rebuild them from scratch. More...