Cetis Blogs - expert commentary on educational technology » Disruptive innovation http://blogs.cetis.org.uk Specialists in educational technology and standards Tue, 12 May 2015 11:45:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.22 MOOCs and Higher Education: What is next? http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/cetisli/2013/06/25/moocs-and-higher-education-what-is-next/ http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/cetisli/2013/06/25/moocs-and-higher-education-what-is-next/#comments Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:46:49 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/cetisli/?p=408 I gave a presentation on “MOOCs and Higher Education” at the SCONUL annual conference in Dublin last week. In the presentation, I examined the potential of MOOCs as a disruptive innovation and an emerging technology in higher education, and explored the concept, business model and trends of the MOOC phenomenon. The full presentation is available [...]

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]]> I gave a presentation on “MOOCs and Higher Education” at the SCONUL annual conference in Dublin last week. In the presentation, I examined the potential of MOOCs as a disruptive innovation and an emerging technology in higher education, and explored the concept, business model and trends of the MOOC phenomenon. The full presentation is available at here.

The Gartner Hype Cycle has been widely used to illustrate the processes of maturity, adoption and applications of emerging technologies in society. A question I posed in my presentation was, will MOOCs fall into this pattern of technology adoption?[..]

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