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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Education in the Age of the MOOC
Author(s) -
Ebner Noam
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
negotiation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.238
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1571-9979
pISSN - 0748-4526
DOI - 10.1111/nejo.12156
Subject(s) - negotiation , massive open online course , quality (philosophy) , scale (ratio) , higher education , conflict resolution , phenomenon , public relations , political science , pedagogy , psychology , law , epistemology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Even as online learning is increasingly embraced by institutions of higher education, the past decade has seen the arrival of yet another new educational vehicle: massive online open courses (MOOCs). These courses are designed to disseminate knowledge at an unprecedented scale — even as they engender concerns about quality, learning efficacy, and the future of higher education. In this article, I discuss the MOOC phenomenon and describe a MOOC on negotiation that I developed and taught, exploring the advantages that such a course offers for negotiation and conflict resolution education in particular.