Learning Objects in MOOC

2015 ◽  
pp. 150-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Marcus-Quinn ◽  
Ian Clancy
Keyword(s):  
Learning Objects ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Massive Online Open Courses ◽  
Alternate Model ◽  
Open Courses ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
Quality Learning ◽  
Ubiquitous Presence

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) are still in their infancy on the surface they look like the necessary silver bullet to provide alternate pathways to education. However, when completion rates and retention figures were published in 2013 the whole concept of the MOOC came under criticism. This criticism has grown largely as a result of the uncertainty and lack of detail about what a MOOC actually is; yet there appears to be a global drive behind MOOC. The ubiquitous presence of technology may be seen as a change agent and there is arguably sufficient demand for a new delivery model to provide education to a modern market. MOOC could fulfil this requirement for an alternate model. Central to the success of MOOC is the availability of high quality learning objects or Open Educational resources (OERs). This chapter provides a background to learning objects and MOOC and looks at good practices in the design, development and management of learning objects in MOOC.

Learning4Content

2015 ◽  
pp. 1903-1914
Author(s):  
Ramesh C. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Common Factors ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Mass Collaboration ◽  
Open Networks ◽  
The World ◽  
Quality Learning

The world over, some common factors have contributed to the emergence and growth of open educational resources. These can be to increase access to educational materials, to reduce the costs, to enhance the quality of educational content through working collaboratively, and to be used for capacity building and research. The WikiEducator project has been the foremost initiative to turn digital divide into digital dividends through free content and open networks. WikiEducator was established on 1 May 2006, and since then, it has grown a very big network of more than 66,700 registered WikiEducators. Learning4Content is one of the flagship initiative of WikiEducator providing free training for teachers. In this chapter, the author discusses building a vibrant and sustainable global community contributing to design, development, and delivery of free content for learning and providing training to develop wiki skills for mass collaboration to create high quality learning resources.

scholarly journals Determining Factors in MOOCs Completion Rates: Application Test in Energy Sustainability Courses

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez ◽  
María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya ◽  
Ignacio Aguaded
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Energy Sustainability ◽  
Design Factor ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Massive Online Open Courses ◽  
Open Courses ◽  
Stanford Model

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are open educational activities that allow for distance learning and professional updating, although the academic community has questioned their effectiveness due to their low completion rates. This research analyzes which factors (personal, family, social, labor, and instructional design) are involved in the value expectations and engagement of the MOOCs and to what degree these affect the decision to enroll and the completion of the MOOC. To this end, in the context of 12 MOOCs on energy sustainability carried out between 2017 and 2018, 8737 participants were surveyed using two instruments designed according to theoretical constructs and expert judgment. The main results show that all the factors reviewed influence the decision to take a MOOC, although the “professional development” aspect has the most significant impact on participants who have graduated from technical and engineering careers. Additionally, this study emphasizes that the “instructional design” factor is decisive in the engagement of younger participants, showing that the conventional design of xMOOCs (Stanford Model) may be one of the most important reasons for the low completion rates of this type of course.

scholarly journals Openness in higher education

2018 ◽  
Vol 325 ◽  
pp. 227-234
Author(s):  
Tatiana Chiriac
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Massive Online Open Courses ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Open Courses ◽  
Constructivist Approaches

The purpose of this study is to analyze the phenomenon of openness in higher education and its trends and technologies of expanding educational opportunities in the digital information society of Moldovan universities. The main concepts of openness in education are associated with the practice of online learning and constructivist approaches, technical optimization of delivering information, continuous professional development and globalization of higher education. Since skilled knowledge becomes the main value of the market, then higher education perspective as a tool of knowledge reproduction is transformed into the basic space of openness and accommodation to innovative use of educational resources. The key issues related to openness in order to impact higher education target the development of Open Educational Resources (OER), as well as implication of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), relatively new online learning trend. There are institutional practices of the adoption and use of open education technologies in some international universities and organizations, which could be extended as well to create an open learning system in the Republic of Moldova, focusing on national practices of education. Openness of Moldovan HEIs is a strategic choice for the future in a rapidly changing educational market that should proliferate.

scholarly journals (Dis)Organization and Success in an Economics MOOC

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (5) ◽  
pp. 514-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhijit V. Banerjee ◽  
Esther Duflo
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Education ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Massive Online Open Courses ◽  
Open Courses

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) present the potential to deliver high quality education to a large number of students. But they suffer from low completion rates. This paper identifies disorganization as a factor behind failure to complete a MOOC. Students who enroll one day late are 17 percentage points less likely to earn a certificate than students who enroll exactly on time. This reflects selection, but it does seem to be related to demographic characteristics, motivation to complete the course, or ability. This suggests that building in even more structure in the MOOC could be a factor in improving performance.

scholarly journals OER and MOOC: The Need for Openness

10.28945/3478 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 209-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismar Frango Silveira
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
General Principle ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Industry Standard ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Massive Online Open Courses ◽  
Open Courses

The Open Software movement serves as a landmark and a starting point for many “open-something” initiatives, such as Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). However, under a pragmatic point-of-view, many of its basic principles are not considered specially when dealing with the above mentioned initiatives: common, industry-standard OER and MOOC lack a considerable set of really open features in a way that deviate the sense of the “O” letter – for Open – in its acronyms. Considering this, the present paper presents a systematization of these concepts around the general principle of openness. There will be discussed some strengths, challenges, and drawbacks in adopting openness as the key for OER and MOOC for Education in 21st Century.

scholarly journals OER and MOOC: The Need for Openness

10.28945/3485 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismar Frango Silveira
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
General Principle ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Industry Standard ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Massive Online Open Courses ◽  
Open Courses

The Open Software movement serves as a landmark and a starting point for many “open-something” initiatives, such as Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). However, under a pragmatic point-of-view, many of its basic principles are not considered specially when dealing with the above mentioned initiatives: common, industry-standard OER and MOOC lack a considerable set of really open features in a way that deviate the sense of the “O” letter – for Open – in its acronyms. Considering this, the present paper presents a systematization of these concepts around the general principle of openness. There will be discussed some strengths, challenges, and drawbacks in adopting openness as the key for OER and MOOC for Education in 21st Century.

scholarly journals Engaging with OER at universities

EDMETIC ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Rosana Montes Soldado ◽  
Miguel Gea Megías ◽  
Claudio Dondi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Massive Online Open Courses ◽  
Open Courses ◽  
The University ◽  
Official Recognition

<p>At present, there is great interest over the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) in all of its forms: OpenCourseware repositories OCW, spare open resources, or even more recently as Massive Online Open Courses (also called MOOC). This panorama has generated considerable debate about their effectiveness in terms of learning, sustainability and especially the role that higher education institutions play in this context. We understand that students are involved on formal and informal learning activities, and require universities should have new model to recognize their skills and abilities on these scenarios. One case study is the MOOC learning framework, where universities are interested but there are nowadays some doubts and fears about the official recognition as a usual learning activity. In this article we analyse some data from the activity in an Open Course developed in the University of Granada and the implications regarding learning skills and recognition.  Finally, we link this approach with the studies given in the Open Learning Framework developed within the European project OERtest, in which five higher education institutions have conducted a pilot on this issue. We can offer some conclusions regarding the feasibility of certifying and award credits to a student.</p>

Learning4Content

2014 ◽  
pp. 266-277
Author(s):  
Ramesh C. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Common Factors ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Mass Collaboration ◽  
Open Networks ◽  
The World ◽  
Quality Learning

The world over, some common factors have contributed to the emergence and growth of open educational resources. These can be to increase access to educational materials, to reduce the costs, to enhance the quality of educational content through working collaboratively, and to be used for capacity building and research. The WikiEducator project has been the foremost initiative to turn digital divide into digital dividends through free content and open networks. WikiEducator was established on 1 May 2006, and since then, it has grown a very big network of more than 66,700 registered WikiEducators. Learning4Content is one of the flagship initiative of WikiEducator providing free training for teachers. In this chapter, the author discusses building a vibrant and sustainable global community contributing to design, development, and delivery of free content for learning and providing training to develop wiki skills for mass collaboration to create high quality learning resources.

Analyse The Impact Of Moocs To Improve The Performance Of Faculty Members In Delhi Ncr

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (9) ◽  
pp. 304-312
Author(s):  
Dr.Deepa Gupta ◽  
Dr.Mukul Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Massive Online Open Courses ◽  
Open Courses ◽  
The Impact

In this research paper, the researcher has attempted to analyse the impact of MOOCs to improve the performance of faculty members concerning Delhi NCR. Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are evolving rapidly, and many kinds of research have been conducted to explore the structure, effectiveness and issues arise in MOOCs. The free accessibility of MOOCs has believed in soon replace the traditional teaching and learning method.

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