Quality Assessment and Certification in Open Scholarly Publishing and Inspiration for MOOC Credentialing

Author(s):  
Xiang Ren

This chapter looks at the changing landscape of quality assessment and certification/credentialing in open knowledge systems by a comparative study between open publishing and open education. Despite the disruptive changes driven by open publishing in scholarly communication, it is challenging to develop widely accepted methods for quality assessment and certification. Similar challenges exist in open education platforms like the massive open online course (MOOC). This work reviews four types of innovations in open publishing in terms of quality control, namely “light touch” peer review, post-publication assessment, social peer review, and open peer review. Synthesising the principles and strategies of these innovations, it discusses how they might be inspiring for developing solutions and models for MOOC assessment and credentialing. This chapter concludes by suggesting future research directions. It argues that the open initiatives are co-evolving with the “traditional” systems and integrating with the established models.

Author(s):  
Xiang Ren

This chapter looks at the changing landscape of quality assessment and certification/credentialing in open knowledge systems by a comparative study between open publishing and open education. Despite the disruptive changes driven by open publishing in scholarly communication, it is challenging to develop widely accepted methods for quality assessment and certification. Similar challenges exist in open education platforms like the massive open online course (MOOC). This work reviews four types of innovations in open publishing in terms of quality control, namely “light touch” peer review, post-publication assessment, social peer review, and open peer review. Synthesising the principles and strategies of these innovations, it discusses how they might be inspiring for developing solutions and models for MOOC assessment and credentialing. This chapter concludes by suggesting future research directions. It argues that the open initiatives are co-evolving with the “traditional” systems and integrating with the established models.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Anna C. Seale ◽  
Maryirene Ibeto ◽  
Josie Gallo ◽  
Olivier le Polain de Waroux ◽  
Judith R. Glynn ◽  
...  

The increase in cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide has been paralleled by increasing information, and misinformation. Accurate public health messaging is essential to counter this, but education may also have a role. Early in the outbreak, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine partnered with FutureLearn to develop a massive open online course (MOOC) on COVID-19. Our approach was grounded in social constructivism, supporting participation, sharing uncertainties, and encouraging discussion. The first run of the course included over 200,000 participants from 184 countries, with over 88,000 comments at the end of the three-week run. Many participants supported each other’s learning in their responses and further questions. Our experience suggests that open education, and supporting the development of communities of learners, can complement traditional messaging, providing a sustainable approach to countering the spread of misinformation.


Author(s):  
Harry Budi Santoso ◽  
Danan Arief Desprianto ◽  
Isnaeni Nurrohmah ◽  
Rahma Khairunisa Nursalamah ◽  
Panca O. Hadi Putra

Indonesia Open-Educational Resources (IOER) need an approach to design a massive open online course (MOOC) interaction to accommodate users’ needs and suggestions. The purpose of this research is to implement customer journey as an alternative approach for developing a MOOC’s interaction design. An online questionnaire, requirement gathering, prototyping, and contextual interview were used to support this research. As a result, there are three phases of customer journey consisting of planning, learning, and completion. In addition, a MOOC interaction design prototype was produced to depict the result.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Anna C. Seale ◽  
Maryirene Ibeto ◽  
Josie Gallo ◽  
Olivier le Polain de Waroux ◽  
Judith R. Glynn ◽  
...  

The increase in cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide has been paralleled by increasing information, and misinformation. Accurate public health messaging is essential to counter this, but education may also have a role. Early in the outbreak, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine partnered with FutureLearn to develop a massive open online course (MOOC) on COVID-19. Our approach was grounded in social constructivism, supporting participation, sharing uncertainties, and encouraging discussion. The first run of the course included over 200,000 participants from 184 countries, with over 88,000 comments at the end of the three-week run. Many participants supported each other’s learning in their responses and further questions. Our experience suggests that open education can complement traditional messaging, potentially providing a sustainable approach to countering the spread of misinformation in public health.


EAD em FOCO ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Vinícius Mendonça Andrade ◽  
Ismar Frango Silveira

Este trabalho aborda a aplicação dos Massive Open On-line Courses: MOOC: no contexto do Ensino Superior. Traz um breve histórico, características e principais tipos de MOOC, bem como os relaciona com o movimento da Educação Aberta. Demonstra através de mapeamento sistemático da literatura um panorama dos estudos publicados na área, tendo como recorte temporal o período entre 2011 e 2015. Os resultados obtidos evidenciam que a aplicação dos MOOC no Ensino Superior é apontada como tema emergente e descortina uma série de potencialidades e desafios, exigindo uma nova postura das instituições de ensino superior. Ressalta que os estudos nessa temática ainda são incipientes.Palavras-chave: MOOC, Massive Online Open Course, Ensino Superior, Educação Aberta, Tecnologias Emergentes.' Overview of the application of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Higher Education: Challenges and OpportunitiesAbstractThis paper proposes to identify application of Massive Open Online Courses: MOOC: in higher education context. It provides a brief history, features and main types of MOOC as well as relates to the movement of Open Education. Demonstrates through systematic mapping of literature an overview of the studies published in the field, with the time frame the period between 2011 and 2015. The results show that the application of MOOC in higher education is seen as an emerging theme and opens up a number of potential and challenges requiring a new approach of higher education institutions. It is evident although the studies on this topic are still incipient.Keywords: MOOC, Massive Online Open Course, Higher education, Open Education, Emerging Technologies.


Comunicar ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (44) ◽  
pp. 81-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Elvira Hernández-Carranza ◽  
Sandra Irene Romero-Corella ◽  
María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya

The aim of this article is to present an evaluation of digital teaching skills in a project funded by the National Distance Education System (SINED) in Mexico conducted on a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) which was designed to develop competences in teachers in the distance learning or classroom setting for the integration of open educational resources (OER). The course was conducted by the Regional Open Latin American Community for Social and Educational Research (Clarise), and posed the question: how are distance learning didactic competences using OER developed? The aim was to identify and evaluate how OER were used and the form they took throughout the stages of the open education movement. The study deployed a mixed methodology with instruments such as emailed questionnaires for the MOOC participants, viewing screens in the discussion forums and anecdotal evidence. The results show that MOOC participants were able to develop digital teaching skills, identify how to use OER and how the training process occurs in the open education movement. Constraints to the development of these skills were also seen in the acculturation in the open education movement, as well as limitations on the design of distance learning models that promote these skills and the recognition of informal learning. El objetivo de este artículo es presentar la evaluación de competencias digitales didácticas en el entorno de un proyecto financiado por el Sistema Nacional de Educación a Distancia (SINED) de México, donde se llevó a cabo un curso masivo abierto (Massive Open Online Course: MOOC, por sus siglas en inglés), dirigido a desarrollar competencias en profesores de educación a distancia o presencial para integrar recursos educativos abiertos (REA). El curso se impartió a través de la Comunidad Latinoamericana Abierta Regional de Investigación Social y Educativa (Clarise). Se partió de la interrogante ¿cómo se desarrollan las competencias didácticas en ambientes de aprendizaje a distancia que utilizan REA?, con el fin de identificar y evaluar cómo se usan los REA y cómo se está formando a través de las etapas del movimiento educativo abierto. La metodología empleada fue mixta, con instrumentos de cuestionarios electrónicos para los participantes, rejillas de observación en foros de discusión y registros anecdóticos. Los resultados muestran que los participantes en un MOOC, logran desarrollar competencias digitales didácticas, lográndose identificar claramente cómo se usan los REA y cómo se está dando el proceso de formación en el movimiento educativo abierto; sin embargo, también se denotan limitaciones para el desarrollo de estas competencias, tales como la culturización en el movimiento educativo abierto, el diseño de modelos de aprendizaje a distancia que promuevan las competencias y el reconocimiento del aprendizaje informal.


Author(s):  
Yong Chen

<p>MOOCs (massive open online course) is a disruptive innovation and a current buzzword in higher education. However, the discussion of MOOCs is disparate, fragmented, and distributed among different outlets. Systematic, extensively published research on MOOCs is unavailable. This paper adopts a novel method called blog mining to analyze MOOCs. The findings indicate, while MOOCs have benefitted learners, providers, and faculty who develop and teach MOOCs, challenges still exist, such as questionable course quality, high dropout rate, unavailable course credits, ineffective assessments, complex copyright, and limited hardware. Future research should explore the position of MOOCs and how it can be sustained.</p>


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