{"id":1539,"date":"2014-04-14T14:01:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T11:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=1539\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T12:02:36","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-mooc-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-mooc-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>MOOC study<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Helsinki did a study on massive open online courses last year. The aim was to find out what kind of strategy the university should take with MOOCs. The study examined different types of mass courses and consortiums of universities which offer them, such as Coursera, Udacit, edX and FutureLearn. <i>Pirjo Hiidenmaa<\/i>, who conducted the study, does not go along with the hype about MOOCs. Instead, she weighs the pros and cons coolly, as the title demonstrates: &#8220;If the answer is MOOC, what is the question?&#8221; Hiidenmaa states that &#8220;digitalisation, open access and free sharing form a misguided equation, which is difficult to solve in practice.&#8221; Among the advantages of a MOOC are the opportunity to promote a university and the ability to attract more students, but the disadvantages are cost and the high proportion of drop-outs. All in all, the study considered MOOCs as simply one way\u2014and not necessarily the best\u2014to increase openness and improve learning at the university<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Helsinki did a study on massive open online courses last year. The aim was to find out what kind of strategy the university should take with MOOCs. The study examined different types of mass courses and consortiums of universities which offer them, such as Coursera, Udacit, edX and FutureLearn. Pirjo Hiidenmaa, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}