The long-term educational challenge of the MOOCs

Resum

Three features of the MOOCs present educational challenges to the current University teaching model. First, they open the classroom doors, and that fosters the objective evaluation of teaching on the same ground as research. Second,materials and lectures that can be downloaded separately and used in live courses. This cumulative effect fosters mainstreaming and interconnection in live courses. Third, the electronic support of the MOOCs courses allows teaching at two levels, and in doing so the course to be used both at the undergraduate and at a graduate level. There remain also some problems to be solved, mainly the Professor’s abilities, the Assesments and the Forum.