Alan Dix Snip!t: No such thing as a free MOOC : JISC

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Snip summary	In his recent JISC blog, David Kernohan asks: ‘Why bot... fees to attend university? …What if you could get it a... online?’ Of course, it is tongue in cheek, because as ... suggests, you don’t get something for nothing. And that brings me to o No such thing as a free MOOC : JISC http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/no-such-thing-as-a-free-mooc/

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In his recent JISC blog, David Kernohan asks: ‘Why bother paying inflated fees to attend university? …What if you could get it all for free, online?’ Of course, it is tongue in cheek, because as my title above suggests, you don’t get something for nothing.

And that brings me to our recent decision in the University of Edinburgh to join our colleagues in North America and offer our own MOOCs – or massive open online courses – through the Coursera consortium.

HTML	<p>In his recent JISC blog, David Kernohan asks: <em>‘Why bother paying inflated fees to attend university? …What if you could get it all for free, online?’</em> Of course, it is tongue in cheek, because as my title above suggests, you don’t get something for nothing.</p> <p>And that brings me to our <a title="(external site)" class="externalLink" href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/online-120717">recent decision in the University of Edinburgh</a> to join our colleagues in North America and offer our own MOOCs – or massive open online courses – through the <a title="(external site)" class="externalLink" href="https://www.coursera.org/">Coursera</a> consortium.</p>

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In his recent JISC blog, David Kernohan asks: ‘Why bother paying inflated fees to attend university? …What if you could get it all for free, online?’ Of course, it is tongue in cheek, because as my title above suggests, you don’t get something for nothing. And that brings me to our <a title="(external site)" class="externalLink" href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/online-120717">recent decision in the University of Edinburgh</a> to join our colleagues in North America and offer our own MOOCs – or massive open online courses – through the <a title="(external site)" class="externalLink" href="https://www.coursera.org/">Coursera</a> consortium.

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