{"id":1229,"date":"2019-01-23T11:13:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T11:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:14:01","slug":"moocs-vs-spocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/2019\/01\/23\/moocs-vs-spocs\/","title":{"rendered":"MOOCs vs SPOCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know what a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massive_open_online_course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MOOC<\/a> is \u2013 Massive Open Online Course. MOOCs have been around for more than a decade, and today dominate the eLearning market. However, MOOCs are generally static one-way delivery solutions which not only can be rather boring, but also in most cases, cannot give a good learning outcome. <a href=\"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter\/2019\/01\/25\/the-problem-with-elearning-part-ii-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> for a more detailed explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Hence until today, the global completion rate for MOOCs is still less than 10%. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Small_private_online_course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SPOC<\/a>s on the other hand are quite different, and from the article above, you will realise that SPOCs if managed well, will have a better learning outcome than most physical classroom-based training. SPOCs are still very rare in the eLearning space, and eCornell is one of them. The completion rate for eCornell is a whopping 86%. And this rate is more than 90% for the corporate clients managed by Genashtim.<\/p>\n<p>So \u201cBeam us up SPOC!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know what a MOOC is \u2013 Massive Open Online Course. MOOCs have been around for more than a decade, and today dominate the eLearning market. However, MOOCs are generally static one-way delivery solutions which not only can be rather boring, but also in most cases, cannot give a good learning outcome. Click here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-january-2019-issue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}