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Friday, February 21, 2020

Post 49: MOOC--Massive Online Open Courses (Free Online classes)

Post 49: MOOC

"MOOC are massive online open course is that encourage enrollment of hundreds if not thousands of students simultaneously move courses are free and open to anyone interested in a topic. Processes are developing so that these courses include interaction among the students. Processes are also evolving so that more formal assessment and credit can be awarded those successfully completing a course. This is good to see as lowering the cost of higher education is a worthy goal and this effort may inform our other systems." (Conrad, 76)

If you want to take free online classes from major Ivy League universities, then you can look no further than  MOOC. I remember one time I accessed MOOC and found a Yale professor talking about the topic, "What is literature?" The Yale  professor talked for a whole hour about the importance of literature. It was however a  very complicated lecture and very hard to follow. I don't think that my students would've been able to follow what he said. But the gist of it was that the heart of literature is that everybody can interpret the literature his way it's the very act of interpretation that makes the study of literature fascinating because no two people will look at the same text in exactly the same way. So if you want your students to experience a college lecture at the Ivy League level, you can always access MOOC absolutely free. MOOC is not just limited to Ivy League universities but other American universities are also offering MOOC classes. You can find MOOC classes on all kinds of subjects. Sometimes the university only offers for free one or two lectures, and then you have to pay for the rest of them. Also, there are universities that offer an entire class free. So it differs from University to University how much of the MOOC is free or not. There's so many variety of online classes in MOOC that it is not possible for me to talk about it all in one blog post, but Google MOOC and then write in your favorite topic you want to study, and you'll find many many hits and as an online teacher you can send links to your students in your online classroom of a college professor giving a one hour lecture to a face-to-face class so that your online students can also be exposed to what it is like for traditional college students in a traditional face-to-face classroom.

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