Online education provider Coursera is partnering with 10 more university systems and schools, including The State University of New York (SUNY), to explore how massively open online courses (MOOCs) can be used on campus. Coursera says that the partnership will give professors the option of presenting MOOCs in a classroom environment, allowing them to see how the online material works alongside traditional teaching. MOOCs are still a young form of learning — they've been closely watched and frequently criticized — and even Coursera appears to regard this online integration as an experiment to see how the new medium can best be utilized.
With this announcement, Coursera now has 80 partnering schools and university systems. But...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/30/4380120/coursera-public-universities-moocs-partnership-suny
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