Utilization of MOOCs Platform for E-Learning Environment in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 117-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdus Samim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning

This chapter is a study of the utilization of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for learning in the higher education, given by the top universities in the world. As we know, MOOC platforms are widely popular in the field of e-learning, in the dissemination of higher education all over the world. Such initiatives are essential for students or people who want to be involved in higher education without going to a university for the completion of degree courses. This study found that most of the top universities started MOOCs in 2012 and found that a 72.7% majority of universities offered diploma and certificate courses to people through MOOCs. It was also found that the eDX platform was used by all the selected universities in providing MOOCs.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Features and Platforms

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-99
Author(s):  
Abhishek Kumar ◽  
Shweta Nishad Brahmbhatt
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter aims to provide an up-to-date snapshot of the current state of application called MOOCs, which are one of the subset of e-Learning. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) provide a new way of learning, which is open, participatory, distributed and lifelong. Various premier universities of the world are now offering courses in the form of MOOCs. The MHRD, Government of India has also started a MOOCs platform called SWAYAM. This chapter covers the definition of MOOCs, its features and different MOOC platforms being used for e-learning i.e. edX, Coursera, SWAYAM, Udacity.

The Technology Shift for MOOC-Based Libraries

2021 ◽  
pp. 729-738
Author(s):  
Triloki Pant ◽  
Swati Pant
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Study Material ◽  
E Learning

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have evolved in past decade and become one of the prominent parts of the higher education system. The MOOCs provided a promising platform to aspirants who wanted to study further to either enhance their educational status or learn new technologies. With the evolution of MOOC, many platforms started to offer such courses, and many of them are not free as these courses need to register with some nominal fee. The role and need of libraries come at this point for MOOC courses as the courses are bundled with corresponding study material. The print library needs to assist e-library so that it may be compatible with the MOOCs and corresponding resources. The technological shift from print to e-library has a great impact on e-learning followed by MOOCs; however, the issue of MOOC libraries and resources is yet to be resolved to ensure the availability to all the users. The chapter deals with the need of library for MOOCs, its structure and technology shift from print library to e-library, along with the differentiation between e-learning and MOOCs.

A Comparative Study on Various Vocabulary Knowledge Scales for Predicting Vocabulary Pre-Knowledge

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Zou ◽  
Haoran Xie ◽  
Yanghui Rao ◽  
Tak-Lam Wong ◽  
Fu Lee Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Knowledge Levels

The world has encountered and witnessed the great popularity of various emerging e-learning resources such as massive open online courses (MOOCs), textbooks and videos with the development of the big data era. It is critical to understand the characteristics of users to assist them to find desired and relevant learning resources in such a large volume of resources. For example, understanding the pre-knowledge on vocabulary of learners is very prominent and useful for language learning systems. The language learning effectiveness can be significantly improved if the pre-knowledge levels of learners on vocabulary can be accurately predicted. In this research, the authors model the vocabulary of learners by extracting their history of learning documents and identify the suitable vocabulary knowledge scales (VKS) for pre-knowledge prediction. The experimental results on real participants verify that the optimal VKS and the proposed predicting model are powerful and effective.

scholarly journals SHARING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH OPEN AND DISTANCE E-LEARNING EDUCATION: GLOBALIZING UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mani Festati Broto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Distance Education System

Universitas Terbuka (UT) as an open and distance e-learning institution in Indonesia, has widely intensify the interconnectivity on international stages. UT adopts international academic standard and pave its vision “to provide access to a world quality higher education for all through open and distance higher education”. Although, most of UT students do not yet have access to adequate internet connection, UT has been a reference for other open education institutions and was acknowledged by the global community to have been succeeded in managing distance education system. By outlining the concept of education diplomacy creates an explanation that the growth of globalized educational collaboration increases the importance of conveying people-to-people engagement through e-learning education system. In previous years, UT has aimed the mission toward an ASEAN distance education collaboration and offer an Open Online Certificate Program through MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses). The aim is to share knowledge among Indonesian and its counterparts in ASEAN.

The Technology Shift for MOOC-Based Libraries

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Triloki Pant ◽  
Swati Pant
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Study Material ◽  
E Learning

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have evolved in past decade and become one of the prominent parts of the higher education system. The MOOCs provided a promising platform to aspirants who wanted to study further to either enhance their educational status or learn new technologies. With the evolution of MOOC, many platforms started to offer such courses, and many of them are not free as these courses need to register with some nominal fee. The role and need of libraries come at this point for MOOC courses as the courses are bundled with corresponding study material. The print library needs to assist e-library so that it may be compatible with the MOOCs and corresponding resources. The technological shift from print to e-library has a great impact on e-learning followed by MOOCs; however, the issue of MOOC libraries and resources is yet to be resolved to ensure the availability to all the users. The chapter deals with the need of library for MOOCs, its structure and technology shift from print library to e-library, along with the differentiation between e-learning and MOOCs.

SHARING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH OPEN AND DISTANCE E-LEARNING EDUCATION: GLOBALIZING UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mani Festati Broto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Distance Education System

Universitas Terbuka (UT) as an open and distance e-learning institution in Indonesia, has widely intensify the interconnectivity on international stages. UT adopts international academic standard and pave its vision “to provide access to a world quality higher education for all through open and distance higher education”. Although, most of UT students do not yet have access to adequate internet connection, UT has been a reference for other open education institutions and was acknowledged by the global community to have been succeeded in managing distance education system. By outlining the concept of education diplomacy creates an explanation that the growth of globalized educational collaboration increases the importance of conveying people-to-people engagement through e-learning education system. In previous years, UT has aimed the mission toward an ASEAN distance education collaboration and offer an Open Online Certificate Program through MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses). The aim is to share knowledge among Indonesian and its counterparts in ASEAN.

Experience Gained From Applying a Team-Based Approach for MOOC Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Spyropoulou ◽  
Christos J. Pierrakeas ◽  
Achilles Kameas
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Open University ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
The World

Massive open online courses (MOOC) constitute an emerging technology for distance and open education while interest in incorporating them in higher education is constantly growing. Due to the free and open access learning opportunities that they offer, they attract an immense number of learners from all over the world. Additionally, because of their openness, they present major challenges, including network co-creation within communities and new forms of communication and collaboration for both students and educators. In this article, the authors present a methodology for a team-based development of MOOCs with the use of a recognized design model that they applied in Hellenic Open University. The main objective is to illustrate the lessons learnt during this MOOC development.

scholarly journals A Survey On MOOC Providers For Higher Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 962-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. P Malliga
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

Online learning has evolved over the years, becoming increasingly accessible and gaining credibility as a learning medium. Universities are reshaping education on the Web by means of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). The learners can access educational content anytime, from anyplace and participatory culture using social networks seems to be the biggest advantage that MOOC has brought to the world of education especially in the higher education arena. MOOC has rapidly developed from a small section of specialist courses to millions of registered users on major online platforms offering hundreds of courses. As MOOC expands, attrition and accreditation is a problem. Though MOOC is expanding very fast, the literature on MOOC research is limited. This paper presents a survey on MOOC providers which aims to capture the state of MOOC, how they evolved and to identify issues and challenges that are important for MOOC providers.

scholarly journals A survey of the awareness, offering, and adoption of OERs and MOOCs in Japan

Open Praxis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsusuke Shigeta ◽  
Mitsuyo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyuki Sakai ◽  
Yasuhiro Tsuji ◽  
Rieko Inaba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Previous Survey ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
The Government

Awareness about Open Educational Resources (OERs) and the purposes for offering and adopting OERs and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were analyzed using a detailed survey of higher education across Japan, which was conducted in 2015. A comparison with a similar study conducted in 2013 revealed that awareness of OERs has increased slightly and the number of MOOCs offered has increased significantly in the intervening two years. The increase of offerings and adoption was low for OERs but high for MOOCs. OERs are used to improve the learning environment for students, while MOOCs aim to promote lifelong learning. Only one-fifth of the institutions surveyed in 2013 offered MOOCs or advanced their plans to offer them in 2015, and institutions that did offer MOOCs or advance such plans to offer them after the previous survey tended to provide MOOCs for society and for promotional purposes, not only for themselves because Japanese institutions are self-sustainable in terms of open education activities, operating without the support of the government or foundations.

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