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MOOCs and their benefits and challenges

Billings and Kowalski (2014) descried benefits and challenges of MOOCs. The benefits include: courses are open to all, participants have access to great teachers and content experts, participants may also interact with classmates from around the world. MOOCs focus on the needs of learners and are very flexible. On the other hand, development costs may create obstacles for many schools, especially when completion rates are low. There is also lack of faculty interaction and face-to-face engagement. For faculty, there are issues of workload and intellectual property rights, and how course credits will be awarded or recognized, if they will be.