Between MOOCs and Service-oriented Education: If Students Had the Choice
- Enterprises demand universities not to limit education to theoretical knowledge, but instead, to prepare students for future challenges in the job. While demanding a focus on current technologies and practices appears reasonable, it contradicts academia’s general focus on sustainable knowledge. This “conflict-ofinterest” can be bridged through extra-curricular professional training. MOOCs are hyped as solution because they allow to simultaneously addressing masses of students. However, with the increasing number of learners, anonymity in education increases and first-level support decreases. Within the extracurricular online program erp4students we found that individual support is considered most relevant to successfully complete professional training.
Document Type: | Article |
---|---|
Language: | English |
Author: | Thomas Richter, Heimo H. Adelsberger, Pouyan Khatami |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 2 |
First Page: | 70 |
Last Page: | 78 |
ISSN: | 2158-3595 |
URL: | https://www.articlegateway.com/index.php/JHETP/article/view/1568 |
Publisher: | North American Business Press |
Date of first publication: | 2017/04/01 |
Departments, institutes and facilities: | Einrichtungen / Verwaltung |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 378 Hochschulbildung |
Entry in this database: | 2018/03/27 |