Oxford University has declared its first “massive open online course” – or so called Mooc – in a partnership with an US on-line university network.
These free on-line classes have grown in popularity with numerous millions and universities of pupils.
But until now Oxford hasn’t offered such classes that were Mooc.
It’s going to run an economics class partnered with on-line platform edX.
The development of Mooc classes recently has been a major happening in higher education, especially in America.
Their patrons claimed that placing lessons online would cause them to become affordable and more accessible – while sceptics doubted that the exchange of ideas in seminars and teaching could be reproduced on the world wide web.
In addition they warned of the high dropout rate from Moocs and that pupils were not likely to get the full degree.
Oxford has offered many resources online, including through the iTunes U service as well as its section for continuing education.
But until now it hasn’t participated in the kind of Mooc classes provided by the large networks that were on-line, like Coursera in great britain and edX.
These supply free mini-lessons, which may be obtained by students everywhere on the planet.
Oxford has declared that it is going to start registering students for a class beginning in February 2017 called “From Poverty to Prosperity: Understanding Economic Development”.
It is going to be part of the edX on-line program, which runs and has nine million registered pupils more than 900 on-line classes from universities including Peking in France in addition to Edinburgh, Harvard, MIT, Berkeley in the US and Imperial College London in the united kingdom.
Ngaire Woods, Blavatnik’s dean, said the on-line class would be “an effective means to expand access to knowledge beyond the classrooms of Oxford”.
