Thursday 25 February 2016

How good is my MOOC?

The Business School accreditation body EFMD launched a new accreditation standard this week - EOCCS - The EFMD On-Line Course Certification System.  The standard adds to its whole school (EQUIS), Programme (EPAS) and Corporate offerings (CLIP) and focuses on the growing number of stand-alone and integrated on-line courses, including MOOCs.

See SHAH, 2014
Now in its pilot phase the EOCCS promises to sort the good from the indifferent in Business related on-line offerings in the hope that global consumers can make better informed decisions about on-line educational opportunities.

We also know that the EU is looking closely at ECTS credits offered on successful completion of on-line courses (could you even do a degree by simply accumulating ECTS credits without getting out of bed?)

Let us hope that the sensible folk at EFMD and the EU share their vision of high quality on-line education as widely as possible to ensure that good practice is propagated.

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