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MOOC barriers
MOOCs favour those with
• Study skills
• Digital literacy
• English as native language
• University degree/academic
background
• Good internet access
• Good income
Read:
Socioeconomic Status and MOOC Enrollment: Enriching Demographic
Information with External Datasets.
John Hansen & Justin Reich (Harvard university)
7. Safe bubbles in a sea of
openness
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8. MOOC ecosystems
Special interest groupsLanguage
support
Translation
Local study
groups
For-credit spin-offs
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Study skills
Webinars
9. Linguistic diversity
– a community approach
• Google Translator Toolkit
• Coursera translator
community
• Open EdX
• TED Open translation
project
• Khan Academy translation
• Amara subtitle editor
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10. Opening up MOOCs
• Open course platforms to
enable regional adaptations
e. g. MOOC for development
(Commonwealth of learning)
• Tools to allow smaller
languages to exploit MOOCs
• Learning together:
MOOC Meetups
• Wrapped MOOCs
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