Moocs: students in the global south are wary of a ‘sage on the stage’

Unless universities adapt the curriculum to suit the needs of students in emerging economies, free online courses will have no relevance Free online courses, known by the acronym Moocs (massive open online courses), have the potential to educate anyone, anywhere and reach the world’s under-served.

from Pocket https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/mar/19/cost-barrier-students-global-south
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2 Replies to “Moocs: students in the global south are wary of a ‘sage on the stage’”

  1. Great find! The opening of the article really questions this notion of ‘open’…

    > ‘Why then, are these courses – which are labelled “open” and offer to take an unlimited number of students – not reaching the majority of learners in the global south?’

    …something which really resonates with a quote I found recently:

    ‘…access is emphatically _not_ enough unless it is seen in a very broad context of social inclusion and social justice.’ (Collier and Ross 2017: 9)
    https://openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/406

    So ‘open’ access isn’t necessarily inclusive…

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