The Massive Open Online Courses are making a revolution in higher education. Why not grab this opportunity and make higher education simple and offer a DIY platform for earning a qualification based on skills and competency assessment? For more information, read 'The MOOCS in Higher Education: DIY Degrees and Diplomas'

1. Massive Open
Online Courses

2. MOOCS
REVOLUTION

3. With MOOCs, do we see the end of
traditional classroom-led universities?
The MOOCS offered by the leading
universities seems to challenges the
traditional campus-based teaching in
classroom setting.

4. MIT and Harvard and others offer
courses for anyone who wishes to enrol
from anywhere in the world for free.
Although in its initial stage, the
emerging developments could make
the traditional teaching redundant.

5. Here, we see the age of Do-It-Yourself
qualifications where the learners can
choose and build a portfolio of
modules that would suit the awarding
criteria of a given university and submit
for certification by paying a small fee.

6. The learners will be able to walk into an
accredited test center and do the exams
and tests and be assessed before
claiming degrees and diplomas from an
accredited awarding body or university.
Amazon Books/author website: Nazimudeen Saleem
The MOOCS in Higher Education: DIY Degrees and Deplomas
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