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ENTER 2014 Research Track Slide Number 1
MOOCs Development for Tourism and Hospitality Curriculum
Nadzeya KalbaskaFaculty of Communication Sciences
Università della Svizzera italianaLugano, Switzerland
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• MOOCs are changing today’s education landscape (Lewin, 2013; Watters, 2013)
• Prediction by Harden (2012): 50% of US universities will disappear by 2060 + Harvard will have 10 million students
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• Massive – up to 150,000 students engaged • Open – anyone can enrol for free. Fee if working
towards a certification• Online – enabled by ICTs• Course – Usually provided by an academic institution.
Rough schedules of 6/12 weeks
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6.1 million Coursarians
560+ courses created by 108 Universities from 16 countries
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Vocational Education
A two million global online learning community, filled with free, high-quality resources for over 500 free courses
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Business models
Possible income - certification - assessment - tutoring and tuition - access to student records - sponsorship
For-profit consortia Non-profit consortia
Udacity.com and Coursera.org
edX.org and Futurelearn.com
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Existing Tourism and Hospitality MOOCs
Title of the course ProviderSpa and Hospitality Operations University of California-IrvineManagement of Services: Concepts, Design, and Delivery MIT Introduction to Tourism University of Southern QueenslandTourism Industry Analysis University of Central FloridaIntroduction to Hospitality World Education UniversityLaw for Tourism Retail World Education UniversityTravel Management World Education UniversityNew Media Course* Cornell School of Hospitality
Certification in Hotel Industry Analytics
American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute; International Council on Hotel Restaurant and Institutional Education and Smith Travel Research
Murphy et al., 2013
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eTourism online resources
eTourism Wikihttp://wiki.ifitt.org/index.php?title=Overview_of_all_Wikis
eTourism Curriculum http://www.ifitt.org/home/view/the_ifitt_eTourism_curriculum
Tourism Australia's e-Kits http://tourismekit.atdw.com.au/
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