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> If your course requires that prospective students “register” to access the content, then it is not an open course. It might be an online course, it might even
by finid 12y ago
> If your course requires that prospective students “register” to access the content, then it is not an open course. It might be an online course, it might even be massive, but it is not open.
That's the last sentence in the 4th paragraph of the article.
"Open" can indeed mean a lot of things. In this case of MOOCs, it just means anybody with an Internet connection can register and take any course - for free. Coursera and edX are prime examples.
Making registration a prerequisite for taking an online course does not invalidate it's openness. It's mostly an administrative thing. So the author's argument does not hold.
- quadrangle 12y agoedX meets certain definitions for Open that Coursera does not, in terms of licensing of content and software.
- desdiv 12y agoWhat's the percentage of edX courses that are actually CC licensed? As a quick and unscientific experiment, I checked out the 12 courses listed on the edX.org homepage and none of them were CC licensed. With Google I found a few CC licensed edX courses [0:2], but looks like they're the rare minority. [0] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-aeronautical-engineering-delftx-ae-1110x https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-aeronautical-enginee... [1] https://www.edx.org/course/business-its-environment-overview-oecx-bp111x https://www.edx.org/course/business-its-environment-overview... [2] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-functional-programming-delftx-fp101x https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-functional-programmi...