By Ahmed Mohamed Fahmy Yousef. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have attracted a great deal of interest in the last years as a new technology-enhanced learning (TEL) model in higher education. MOOCs provide more educational opportunities to a massive number of learners to attend free online courses around the world. Several debates around MOOCs have been focusing on the potential, social, institutional, technological, relevance, and marketing issues and less on the quality design of MOOC environments. More...
Register of higher education providers launched
HEFCE has today published its first register of higher education providers. An authoritative reference point for a wide range of users, the register describes the powers that providers regulated in England have, and the controls that apply to them.
It is launched alongside an updated ‘operating framework for higher education’, which explains the arrangements for regulating higher education providers in England. More..

