%0 Generic %A Balaji, Venkataraman %C Canada, North America %D 2013 %I Commonwealth of Learning (COL) %K components of a MOOC platform %K delivery challenges %K flipped classroom %K learning objects %K MOOC %K ODL paradigm %K OER %P 1-2, 1-53 %T MOOC, OER and mass higher education %U http://hdl.handle.net/11599/1188 %X MOOC, OER and Mass Higher Education, May 2013 by Venkataraman Balaji, Commonwealth of Learning, Based on a report by Professor T V Prabhakar, IIT Kanpur // A key challenge facing the policy makers in many developing countries is the need to increase affordable access to quality education and training at post-secondary level. The ODL paradigm has been able to address this challenge quite effectively in the past. Two key developments, both involving contemporary ICT, can be of further help. %8 05/2013 %* does not apply %> http://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/archive/2013_BalajiV_MOOCOERMassHigherEd_Transcript.pdf %> http://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/archive/2013_BalajiV_MOOCOERMassHigherEd_Slides.pdf