Undoubtedly there are big changes in education going on many of which catalysed by Open Education. It seems that the current hype around MOOCs reflects a big disappointment with many of the traditional teaching and learning practices. Social software and social networks offer ubiquitous access to other learners and thus open up the gates of the classroom. The walls are being torn down and students will expect a much greater amount of freedom. This is certainly a big chance to rethink many of the old-fashioned myths of teaching. Myths that have been tackled a long time ago, for instance by Wedemeyer in his famous book “Learning at the Back Door”. Now we have claims to “flip the classroom”, i.e., to alter the relationships between lectures and discussions, enabled by ICT.
MOOCs have already been transformed into spin-offs like Udacity or Coursera to further explore their potentials. They aim at:
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