Columbia University’s Center for Teaching & Learning’s Director, Maurice Matiz, explained during the third Open edX Meetup in New York, on January 7, why MOOCs are worth it. These are the reasons:
- Showcase our faculty and our programs
- Attract applicants to our on-campus, distance education, and certificate programs
- Improve how we teach on campus
– Leverage technological/pedagogical advances for our resident students and tuition-paying students in distance and hybrid education programs
– Publish excellence
– Teach the world; share knowledge freely - Foster lifelong learning programs for alumni
- Fundraising opportunities
Currently, Columbia University, which posts MOOCs on edX.org (seven published courses and five more in production) and Coursera (11 courses) has a dedicated team of over thirty people. All of the MOOCs are released as open content under the Creative Commons license.
