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Open Educational Resources (OER) in less used languages: a state of the art report| ICDE » News archive » 2014 » July - Sept

Open Educational Resources (OER) in less used languages: a state of the art report| ICDE » News archive » 2014 » July - Sept | Everything open | Scoop.it
The LangOER project has released a report with the findings of its first study of Open Educational Resources (OER) in less used languages.It includes a separate
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MOOCs Are Largely Reaching Privileged Learners, Survey Finds – Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education

MOOCs Are Largely Reaching Privileged Learners, Survey Finds – Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education | Everything open | Scoop.it

Most people who take massive open online courses already hold a degree from a traditional institution, according to a new paper from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

The paper is based on a survey of 34,779 students worldwide who took 24 courses offered by Penn professors on the Coursera platform. The findings—among the first from outside researchers, rather than MOOC providers—reinforce the truism that most people who take MOOCs are already well educated.

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Survey results confirms impression that many participants of MOOCs  have : that most already hold a first degree, so MOOCs not at this moment in time closing the inequality to access education....  

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