3. Theories of Learning and MOOCs
• New Vs. old way of learning
• Process Vs. product
• Changing role of the learners
• Social learning
• Open learning
• Learner autonomy
• Mobile learning
• Global learning (borderless)
8. MOOCs and Language
• France Université Numérique (FUN)
• Iversity German
• Arabic Rawaq – Edraak
• Spanish
• Edx open source
9. Coursera • 2012
• Stanford
University
• For-profit
provider
• Affiliated with
Amazon
• $ 30-100 for
course credits
• $60-90 protected
exams
• 6-15% of
revenue goes to
partner university
• 62 Colleges and
University
•2.8 Million users
•337 Courses
10. Coursesites
• 2012
• Blackboard
• For-profit
provider
• Free teaching
platform
• individual
instructors
• A platform
• more than
74,000 instructors
• more than
12,000 institutions
•Around 160
countries
•Around $30 for
signature tracks
11. Udemy
• 2010
• 8000 courses
• More than 2
million users
• Course creators
independent
• For-profit
provider
• Charged service
12. EdX
• 2012
• MIT & Harvard
• Non-profit
provider
• Retail partners
and textbook
suppliers
• Edx gets 10-30%
of revenue
• Universities get
50-70%
• 12 Universities
• 24 classes
• 675,000 users
13. Iversity
• 2013
•Student-initiated
• Germany
• For-profit
provider
• Signature tracks
• Multilingual
• 24 MOOCs
• More than
100,000 users
• European Credit
Transfer and
Accumulation
System (ECTS)
credits
15. Rawaq رواق
• 2013
• Personal
initiative
• No signature
tracks
• Affiliated with
professional
provider on
personal basis
• Only Arabic
supported
• 27 courses
• + 100,000 users