The University and the Open learning challenge: the innovation of Mooc - Massive Open Online Courses L'Università e la sfida dell'Open learning: il carico innovativo dei MOOC- Massive Open Online Courses

The diffusion of open education is well represented by the ever-increasing free availability on the web of open educational resources and practices, without any restrictions on their use and reuse. In this paper, after a brief introduction on related literature of Open learning, we’ll examine MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) pedagogical models, focusing light and shade.