MOOC's business models: Turning black swans into gray swans

Manuela Aparicio; Fernando Bação; Tiago Oliveira

doi:10.1145/2618168.2618175

MOOC's business models: Turning black swans into gray swans

Manuela Aparicio, Fernando Bação, Tiago Oliveira

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Abstract

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are black swans. A black swan is an unexpected event that emerges from reality and alters the reality itself. MOOCs have affected supply and demand in higher education. MOOCs distribute knowledge, classes on many areas of expertise for free. Millions of users, from all over the world are enrolling MOOCs courses. Universities are sharing resources and knowledge in the Internet no matter who or why. This paradigm shift has an impact on people's life. So, how can universities survive if they are giving knowledge for free? This paper presents a literature review on MOOCs. We also modulate this reality to minimize the jeopardy and maximize the good opportunities that MOOCs bring.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, ISDOC 2014
Publisher	ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	45-49
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9781450327138
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2618168.2618175
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Event	International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, ISDOC 2014 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 16 May 2014 → 17 May 2014

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Conference	International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, ISDOC 2014
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	16/05/14 → 17/05/14

Keywords

business models
cMOOC
e-Learning
massive open online courses
MOOC
SPOC
xMOOC

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Aparicio, M , Bação, F & Oliveira, T 2014, MOOC's business models: Turning black swans into gray swans. in Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, ISDOC 2014. ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 45-49, International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, ISDOC 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, 16/05/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2618168.2618175

MOOC's business models: Turning black swans into gray swans. / Aparicio, Manuela ; Bação, Fernando ; Oliveira, Tiago.
Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, ISDOC 2014. ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 45-49.

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