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A “perfect storm” of major trends will boost Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and bring disruption to the education industry and society at large in the coming years, Deloitte has predicted.
The argument was made in the latest edition of the annual Technology, Media & Telecommunications Predictions paper published by Deloitte on 14th January.
Among the factors cited to support its conclusion are the relatively low costs of MOOCs; the increasing need for older workers to retrain for new skills; the lack of cash among governments to help re-educate sections of the workforce whose skills have become obsolete; the growth of the “flipped learning” model; and students’ increasing desire to control how they learn in terms of learning what they want, when they want.
MOOCs’ potential to make use of big data tools to analyse student marks, or to measure areas where students are replaying passages because of poor comprehension, is another factor cited by the report.