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Essay / Massive Open Online Courses - 1334
MOOC is an acronym for “massive open online courses”; these MOOCs have had a considerable influence on the way education is perceived today. At the moment, MOOCs are almost always free, since students pay no fees to register or take the course. Registrations are high, ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands. Although enrollment and interest income may be high, course completion rates are extremely low; often, no more than five to ten percent of enrolled students complete the course. 1 The mission of MOOCs is to increase access to higher education globally, reduce costs, and invigorate teaching and learning. 2 MOOCs have spread like wildfire; the number of students taking at least one online course now stands at 6.7 million. 3 Additionally, the proportion of all students taking at least one online course is at an all-time high of 32 percent. 3 Online higher education is rapidly growing in importance and is now a central aspect of the Western educational model of the future. On the surface, MOOCs and online higher education seem like real concepts to export to developing countries, but in reality, online higher education is part of the forced and veiled Westernization of the Third World. the Western educational model on traditional cultures. This education interferes with indigenous culture and destroys the history of the people. The poster for Carol Black's film, Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden?, asks a question: "If you wanted to destroy a culture, where would you start?" You would start with the children. 4 In Africa, Christian missionaries introduced the Western style education system and even after the middle of the article......l Computers for e-learning: the Sri Lankan experience. " Journal of Education and Training Studies [Online], 1.2 (2013): 152-158.15: eLearning Africa News. (April 2013). Education in Refugee Camps. 16: Enkiwe-Abayao, Leah (Winter 2003). learning in the Philippines. 27.4. Indigenous education and prospects for cultural survival.17: Al-Harthi, AS (2010a (3), 135-150.18: Al-Harthi, AS (2010b) Cultural differences. distance transactional preference by Arab and American distance learners. The Quarterly Review of Distance Education Journal 11(4), pp. 257-267.19: Emanuel, EJ Nature (November 21, 2013). educated people..