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This chapter focuses on the role MOOCs can play in creating new opportunities for new practices, processes and ways of working and in building capability and capacity within the higher education sector. The chapter examines new arrangements in developing curricula and governance in offering MOOCs and related technology solutions in sustainable ways. The chapter explores the challenges these changes can make to the way institutions see themselves and their role as higher education providers, and the roles of the stakeholders within the institutions. In this sense, MOOCs are seen as a catalyst to unbundle higher education in a new way. The MOOCs themselves are not seen as necessarily innovative but they provide the opportunity for new thinking and working and in offering courses in non-traditional ways, open to all, anywhere, with potential links to the institution’s conventional award bearing programs.
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Fox, R. (2016). MOOC Impact Beyond Innovation. In: Ng, Ch., Fox, R., Nakano, M. (eds) Reforming Learning and Teaching in Asia-Pacific Universities. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 33. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0431-5_8
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