Five years after GW launched its first free massive open online course, faculty continue to tout its advantages for students. Ken Schappelle, the director of marketing and communications for the School of Nursing, said the school’s MOOC offerings have helped nursing faculty disseminate their knowledge through an accessible medium at no cost. Jay Halfond, a professor of the practice of continuing and distance education at Boston University, said students can use MOOCs to develop professional skills and gain useful credentials to advance in their field of study even if they cannot gain academic credit from the courses. Ray Schroeder, the associate vice chancellor for online learning at the University of Illinois Springfield, said higher education institutions have increasingly developed MOOCs to deal with the greater numbers of nontraditional students they are faced with.
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