Abstract
The MOOC Model for Digital Practice responds to the “Building Digital Skills for Tomorrow”
section of the consultation paper Improving Canada’s Digital Advantage: Strategies for Sustainable
Prosperity by synthesizing the current state of knowledge about Massive Online Open
Courses (MOOCs). It argues that building and sustaining prosperity through Canada’s current
digital strengths depends on a digital ecosystem that embraces both infrastructure and the collaborative
social networks enabled by that infrastructure. Prosperity in this context requires a
citizenry with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to turn these factors towards creating
wealth. By exploring the relationship of MOOCs to the digital economy in general and their
potential roles to prepare citizens for participation in that digital economy in particular, it illustrates
one particularly Canadian model of how these needs may be addressed.
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