Abstract
At present a substantial insecurity prevails about the future of eLearning and particularly about the future of recent MOOCs. Those who have been enthusiastic at the beginning are now more esceptical about the future development of teaching with digital media, others maintain their positive attitude and look for ways to promote and implement their use in the university. Numerous institutions publish forecasts and time frames about relevance of the upcomong innovations. We took the critique raised against the methodological background of some studies as a point of departure to discuss the possible impact of digitalization on a future digital university from a historical and economic perspective. It shows that digitalization followed a continuous development especially pushed by distance education universities and that phenomena such as MOOCs turned out to be not as “disruptive” as some providers pretend. Instead national policies, economic sustainability and the impact of digitalization on different stakeholders will determine the future shape of the “digital University”.
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Abstract
At present a substantial insecurity prevails about the future of eLearning and particularly about the future of recent MOOCs. Those who have been enthusiastic at the beginning are now more esceptical about the future development of teaching with digital media, others maintain their positive attitude and look for ways to promote and implement their use in the university. Numerous institutions publish forecasts and time frames about relevance of the upcomong innovations. We took the critique raised against the methodological background of some studies as a point of departure to discuss the possible impact of digitalization on a future digital university from a historical and economic perspective. It shows that digitalization followed a continuous development especially pushed by distance education universities and that phenomena such as MOOCs turned out to be not as “disruptive” as some providers pretend. Instead national policies, economic sustainability and the impact of digitalization on different stakeholders will determine the future shape of the “digital University”.
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