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Europe in the world: Higher education developments across the globe

ACA Annual Conference 2014

The end of the traditional university? MOOCs and open content

William Lawton The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education

Espace Agora du Haut-Carré Université Bordeaux 1

17 June 2014

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www.obhe.ac.uk/documents/view_details?id=933 www.obhe.ac.uk/documents/view_details?id=934

‘The “hype cycle” of MOOCs and other big ideas’, Times Higher Education, 9 January 2014.

We are here

Dominant university model unviable in most cases. 15-20 independent, global brands; the rest to play for the silver medal. Ernst & Young (Australia), 2012

Half of the 4,500 colleges and universities in the US

will cease to exist.

‘The End of the University as We Know It’, The American Interest,

Jan 2013

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Trouble ahead?

The models of higher education in the 20th

century are broken….

The traditional multipurpose university has had its day.

‘An Avalanche is Coming’, Pearson/IPPR, 2013

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Two considerations about MOOCs

• How MOOC methods may impact on traditional

pedagogy

• Search for revenue, including via integrating

completion certificates into degree credit

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edX courses translated into Arabic

original content in Arabic

English-language content

大学MOOC课程

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The future is blended