How to Globalize Online Course Content

2011 ◽  
pp. 134-144
Author(s):  
Martin Schell
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Global English ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Global Language ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds

Considering that 347 languages have over 1 million speakers each and account for 94% of the world’s population, localization is unsustainable as a strategy for making online courses globally accessible. Writing Web content in Global English is the best way to ensure that people from all linguistic backgrounds have a reasonable chance of comprehending course materials. This chapter shows how to transform native English text into Global English (simpler syntax, less jargon, fewer idioms, no slang). It also discusses e-learning design issues such as cultural perspective and Internet logistics (speed and cost of connection). Finally, it addresses the future of English as a global language, particularly in reference to its supposed “rivalry” with Mandarin.

How to Globalize Online Course Content

2011 ◽  
pp. 155-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Schell
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Global English ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Global Language ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds

Considering that 347 languages have over 1 million speakers each and account for 94% of the world’s population, localization is unsustainable as a strategy for making online courses globally accessible. Writing Web content in Global English is the best way to ensure that people from all linguistic backgrounds have a reasonable chance of comprehending course materials. This chapter shows how to transform native English text into Global English (simpler syntax, less jargon, fewer idioms, no slang). It also discusses e-learning design issues such as cultural perspective and Internet logistics (speed and cost of connection). Finally, it addresses the future of English as a global language, particularly in reference to its supposed “rivalry” with Mandarin.

How to Globalize Online Course Content

2008 ◽  
pp. 977-987
Author(s):  
Martin Schell
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Global English ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Global Language ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds

Considering that 347 languages have over 1 million speakers each and account for 94% of the world’s population, localization is unsustainable as a strategy for making online courses globally accessible. Writing Web content in Global English is the best way to ensure that people from all linguistic backgrounds have a reasonable chance of comprehending course materials. This chapter shows how to transform native English text into Global English (simpler syntax, less jargon, fewer idioms, no slang). It also discusses e-learning design issues such as cultural perspective and Internet logistics (speed and cost of connection). Finally, it addresses the future of English as a global language, particularly in reference to its supposed “rivalry” with Mandarin.

Implementation and Evaluation of Online Courses

2009 ◽  
pp. 305-329
Author(s):  
Chao Lee
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Support Team ◽  
Addie Model ◽  
Teaching Learning

As stated in the discussion of the ADDIE model in the last chapter, implementation and evaluation are part of the development process. Once online course materials are developed, the next task is to deploy the course materials to students. The first topic of this chapter will deal with the issues related to the deployment of online course materials. In this chapter, we will discuss the tasks such as planning and training involved in the deployment process. Once the online course materials have been deployed, there will be a large number of requests from the students for help on technology and course content related issues. To keep the online teaching/learning system running successfully, we need a strong technical support team including experienced computer service personnel, instructors, and fellow students. This chapter will deal with the issues related to technical support. We will discuss various ways to provide technical support services.

scholarly journals Exploring learner to content interaction as a success factor in online courses

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tekeisha Denise Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Course Completion ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Content Interaction ◽  
Factor Data

<p>Interaction plays a critical role in the learning process. For online course participants, interaction with the course content (learner-content interaction) is especially important because it can contribute to successful learning outcomes and course completion. This study aims to examine the relationship between learner-content interaction and course grade to determine if this interaction type is a contributing success factor. Data related to student interaction with course content, including time spent reviewing online course materials, such as module PowerPoint presentations and course videos and time spent completing weekly quizzes, were collected for students in three sections of an online course (<em>N </em>= 139). The data were then correlated against grades achieved in the course to determine if there was any relationship. Findings indicate statistically significant relationships between the amount of time the learner spent with the content and weekly quiz grades (<em>r </em>= .-72).  The study concludes that learners who spent more time interacting with course content achieve higher grades than those who spent less time with the content.<br /><br /></p>

Auto Grouping and Peer Grading System in Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Chiou ◽  
Timothy K. Shih
Keyword(s):  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Massive Open Online Course ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
E Learning

E-learning is a progressive way of learning through online courses. Instructors pass information to learners via context and videos embedded in active webpages, so that learners intake knowledge of what they need. Now e-learning is not simply providing course materials, while the trend of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is recently applied widely, the concept of flipped classroom is well deployed everywhere. Courses are designed more practical, suitable, and problem-solving inclined. By this way, learners' learning effectiveness and learning motivation are triggered. In this research, the authors will develop an online learning platform and improve the existing methods of peer grouping and peer assessment, to promote the concept of MOOCs.

scholarly journals Online Graduate Student Perceptions of Program Community

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Shepherd ◽  
Doris Bolliger
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Course Content ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Directed Learning

Facilitating an online course in today’s student population requires an educator to be innovative and creative and to have an impactful online presence. In the current online learning environment (also known as e-learning), keeping students’ thoughtfully engaged and motivated while dispensing the required course content necessitates faculty enabling a safe, nonjudgmental environment whereby views, perspectives, and personal and professional experiences are encouraged. The educator must exhibit an educator-facilitated active, student-centered learning process, whereby students are held accountable for their active participation and self-directed learning while balancing a facilitator role to further enhance the learning process. This article explores one educator’s reflective practice process that has been developed over numerous years as a very early adopter of online education. It will explore the organizational aspect of teaching-facilitating a dynamic robust online course.

Understanding Online Learners' Media Literacy for Effective Training of Online Instructors

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Cathryn Crosby
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Academic Literacies ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Literacy Proficiency ◽  
Academic Reading ◽  
Writing Practices

The increase in online courses offered in higher education, the reliance on highly developed academic literacy skills to learn course content, the complex nature of media literacy, the negotiation of multiple technologies, and the corresponding media literacy together can be quite challenging for online learners. Most research conducted on academic literacies has focused primarily on academic reading and writing practices rather than on media literacy. This chapter discusses an investigation of media literacy in an online course, the experience learners had with this literacy and online tasks. The chapter discusses results of data from the online learners and instructor, which showed the instructor required different media literacy proficiency than what the online learners possessed prior to beginning the online course. Finally, the chapter presents implications the study findings have for online instructors' effective development, design, and delivery of online courses and development of online learners' media literacy.

Evaluating an Online Programming Instructional Process Organized Through Elaboration Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Ünal Çakıroğlu ◽  
Mücahit Öztürk
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Instructional Technologies ◽  
Web Conferencing ◽  
Elaboration Theory ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Delivery Platform ◽  
Quality Learning

This article draws on a semester design study to evaluate the quality of an online from the point of e-learning. Adobe Connect web conferencing system was used as a delivery platform in an Introductory Programming course. The course content was specifically sequenced and elaborated in terms of elaboration theory (ET). Thirty pre-service computer teachers enrolled in instructional technologies department online program were participated to the study. The evaluation criteria included dimensions of e-learning in which both qualitative and quantitative data was used. The results indicated that the online course almost met the seven dimensions of e-learning in order to provide high quality learning outcomes. Elaborating the content provided positive contributions to the dimensions of content, interaction, learning and support. Along with the results, some implications were provided for elaborating and evaluating the content for online courses.

Using Problem-Based Learning in Online Courses

2011 ◽  
pp. 243-265
Author(s):  
Richard F. Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Constructivist Learning Theory ◽  
Structured Problems ◽  
E Learning

In this chapter, I argue that instructional designers must use research and theory to guide them to new and justified instructional practices when designing e-learning. I introduce a well-established pedagogy, problem-based learning (PBL), in which complex, ill-structured problems serve as the context and stimulus for learning, and students work collaboratively to understand the problem and learn about the broader related concepts. I describe the structure of PBL and discuss Barrow’s (1998) concept of “authentic” PBL. I then review the support for PBL in the research literature and describe its relationship to cognitive and constructivist learning theory. I conclude the chapter by demonstrating how authentic PBL can be applied to e-learning using supporting examples from an undergraduate online course in agriculture.

Understanding learner participation at scale: How and why

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-252
Author(s):  
Samaa Haniya ◽  
Luc Paquette
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Learner Participation ◽  
Massive Open Online Course ◽  
Motivation For Learning ◽  
E Learning

Understanding learner participation is essential to any learning environment to enhance teaching and learning, especially in large scale digital spaces, such as massive open online courses. However, there is a lack of research to fully capture the dynamic nature of massive open online courses and the different ways learners participate in these emerging massive e-learning ecologies. To fill in the research gap, this paper attempted to investigate the relationship between how learners choose to participate in a massive open online course, their initial motivation for learning, and the barriers they faced throughout the course. This was achieved through a combination of data-driven clustering approaches—to identify patterns of learner participation—and qualitative analysis of survey data—to better understand the learners’ motivation and the barriers they faced during the course. Through this study we show how, within the context of a Coursera massive open online course offered by the University of Illinois, learners with varied patterns of participation (Advanced, Balanced, Early, Limited, and Delayed Participation) reported similar motivations and barriers, but described differences in how their participation was impacted by those factors. These findings are significant to gain insights about learners’ needs which in turn serve as the basis to innovate more adaptive and personalized learning experiences and thus advance learning in these large scale environments.

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