The MOOCs: Innovation to disruptive new business model in higher education
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- Mª Granada Pérez Rastrollo (ES) Universidad de Sevilla
- Julio Cabero (ES) Universidad de Sevilla
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The MOOCs have appeared in our higher education sector as a new model of education that has broken into our system as a solution to some of the same problems. This article explores how MOOCs been considered a disruptive innovation and how they have happened in higher education, to the extent that is rare Spanish University currently has not designed its own MOOCs or is currently thinking about it. This article comes after an investigation in which MOOCs courses in Spain, for which a list of categories is constructed analyzes aimed know what technical structure, aesthetics, navigation, content and skills development for employment form of these courses in Spanish and Spanish universities.
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