Role of MOOCs for Technology and Business Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 102-121
Author(s):  
Saneem Fatima
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Analytical Skills ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Youth Population ◽  
The Government ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
New Education

Education with the help of technology is deliberated as an encouraging development and means of transforming the teaching-learning model. The significant changes in use of the technology in online education has seen the emergence of the concept of massive open online courses (MOOCs). India has the world's largest youth population of about 500 million in the age bracket of 5-24 years. According to the statistics offered by Deloitte, 69% of jobs will be impacted by automation and analytical skills. Critical thinking and emotional intelligence will have a higher demand as against reading and writing by 2022. The World Economic Forum's ‘Future of Jobs 2018' report states that more than one-half of India's workforce will have to be reskilled by 2022. There is a need to make the Indian educational system globally more relevant and competitive. In this context, this chapter attempts to bring out the various aspects related to the challenges and opportunities through usage of MOOCs in technology and business education, especially in the context of the new education policy of the Government of India in 2020.

scholarly journals EFFECT OF COVID-19 ON SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO ADOPT ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Sunayana Garg ◽  
Diwakar Aggarwal ◽  
Sushil Kumar Upadhyay ◽  
Gautam Kumar ◽  
Gulbir Singh
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Training System ◽  
School Students ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Teaching Learning

Purpose of Study: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), deals with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has instantly spread worldwide, leading to an episode of intense irresistible pneumonia. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a phenomenal change in educational teaching-learning framework globally. Other than financial and social effects, there is a difficulty in adopting new online education systems by stakeholders of academic institutions. Methodology: The review presented here is based on the platinum open access literature focusing on the adoption of the online education system during the current pandemic situation. This compilation of the findings is based on a systematic review published by the scholars of the relevant field of research targeted to opportunities and challenges in adopting ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and online teaching-learning pedagogy.  Main Findings: Specifically, school students need to deal with various sorts of ecological, electronic, and mental battles because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The whole education system from elementary to tertiary level has been imploded during the lockdown time of the COVID-19 in India and worldwide. The New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has been delivered by the recently renamed Ministry of Education. The approach has given another face to the Online Education System in India. Applications of this study: The finding of the current investigation is a portrayal of opportunities and challenges in receiving the online teaching-learning education system by the public and private educational institutions. It will help in the planning and development of strategies to handle the challenges and opportunities of e-learning during the current global epidemic. Novelty of the study: The authors endeavored to address the web-based learning and teaching in the school training system in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The capacity of offered resources in academic organization effectively changed conventional education into online schooling with the help of virtual classes and other urgent online gadgets in this reliably moving instructive scene.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Students from Northwestern Romania on Online Education during the Pandemic COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Bogdan-Vasile Cioruța ◽  
Marius Mesaroș ◽  
Monica Lauran ◽  
Mirela Coman ◽  
Alexandru Lauran
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Social Experiment ◽  
Assessment Activity ◽  
Multimedia Technologies ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Voluntary Commitment ◽  
Teaching Learning

The current spatio-temporal context, in which the didactic activities in our country (Romania) are still carried out, is, beyond its form of social experiment, a form devoid of spiritual content. In the transition from classical to modern, through multimedia technologies, the interactions based on the teaching-learning-assessment activity are severely widowed by the physical lack of those closely involved in the educational system. In such a context, considered to be still cloudy, unsettled, the level of perception of those trained is questioned. Thus, through this study, our emphasis and attention fall on how online education is received, accepted, or not among Romanian students; for the study being interviewed only the students from the third year of study, from various specializations (technical and non-technical), aged over 21-22 years. This study took place between November 2020 and February 2021, on a sample of 463 students. Only students with whom the teachers had contact, who actively participated in online courses, seminars, and laboratories (especially computer-assisted training seminars), participated and were interviewed. The whole debate focused on the students' report on the teaching activity carried out exclusively online. Their answers, under anonymity and voluntary commitment, being an overview, which we decided to present both descriptive (only fragments) and infographics (only a summary of answers).

scholarly journals Analysis on the Influence of The Epidemic on Teaching-Learning Process in Palghar Area

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (SUP 1) ◽  
pp. 53-56
Author(s):  
Juita Tushar Raut ◽  
Vikram Patil
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Back To Work

The unexpected outburst of the novel COVID-19, carried a lot of damage to whole world. To contain the epidemic, people had to stay where they were. They could not go back to work places or to school or colleges. The offline courses were due to many reasons infeasible, what brought unexpected changes to education. Aside from efforts to solve this co19 problem, the state must continue to maintain the stability and sustainability of the learning process that is the right of all citizens. India experienced the same thing. The online courses, learning process came into the picture. The influence focusses on the teaching and learning-effect, the transformation of the teaching forms. This paper mainly focussed on the impact of online-learning process on the parents. This research aims to determine how parents and their children feel about online education and also learn about their experiences.

Massive Open Online Courses in China

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-109
Author(s):  
Xiaobin Li
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Massive Open Online Course ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
E Learning

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the literature on massive open online course (MOOC) development in China, its accompanying practices, challenges, and opportunities. The chapter also offers recommendations derived from the literature on how to make MOOCs benefit more Chinese. To conduct this study, the author reviewed Chinese literature on MOOCs since 2012, when the first five articles on MOOCs appeared in Chinese journals, which introduced concepts and practices of Western MOOCs into China. The author also reviewed well-known English journals on online education and e-learning since 2013, when the first Chinese MOOCs appeared.

scholarly journals Library Services for Open Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariann Løkse ◽  
Øystein Lund ◽  
Per Pippin Aspaas
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
Library Support ◽  
Teaching Learning

Mariann Løkse, head of Library Services, and Øystein Lund, head of the Resource Center for Teaching, Learning and Techology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway discuss library support for open education. They share their thoughts on online education in general and during a period of COVID-19 lockdown in particular. They talk us through information literacy, MOOCs, learning outcomes from online courses as compared to traditional classroom lectures, and a range of other aspects of open education. During the discussion, the following web services and online documents are mentioned: iKomp (a MOOC on information literacy, in Norwegian and English); https://www.sevuppt.no/ (a MOOC on pedagogical supervision, in Norwegian); https://doi.org/10.7557/15.5501 (Mariann Løkse's contribution to a collection of articles dedicated to Stein Høydalsvik on his retirement, in Norwegian); https://hdl.handle.net/10037/3823 (the doctoral thesis of Øystein Lund, in Norwegian). First published online June 25, 2020.

scholarly journals Suspending Classes Without Stopping Learning: China’s Education Emergency Management Policy in the COVID-19 Outbreak

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wunong Zhang ◽  
Yuxin Wang ◽  
Lili Yang ◽  
Chuanyi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Government ◽  
Online Teacher Training ◽  
Teaching Learning

Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 outbreak, an emergency policy initiative called “Suspending Classes Without Stopping Learning” was launched by the Chinese government to continue teaching activities as schools across the country were closed to contain the virus. However, there is ambiguity and disagreement about what to teach, how to teach, the workload of teachers and students, the teaching environment, and the implications for education equity. Possible difficulties that the policy faces include: the weakness of the online teaching infrastructure, the inexperience of teachers (including unequal learning outcomes caused by teachers’ varied experience), the information gap, the complex environment at home, and so forth. To tackle the problems, we suggest that the government needs to further promote the construction of the educational information superhighway, consider equipping teachers and students with standardized home-based teaching/learning equipment, conduct online teacher training, include the development of massive online education in the national strategic plan, and support academic research into online education, especially education to help students with online learning difficulties.

The Analysis and Design of Internet Course Teaching System for Operation System

2012 ◽  
Vol 239-240 ◽  
pp. 1637-1640
Author(s):  
Qi Jun Du
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Operation System ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Teaching Learning

Based on the design theory of internet course teaching, combined with the course of operation system, some key technology has been introduced, such as the development process of teaching, network system, the curriculum and various network elements: learners, teaching objective, contents of teaching, learning environment, teaching strategies, evaluation, etc. Some construction of network course building should be noted, which all has strong and practical significance for others. With the rapid development of Internet and the gradual perfection of the modern education technology, the education philosophy and approaches have been keeping innovated. The Internet-based courses have aroused many people’s concern. Compared with traditional courses, it is much more flexible, efficient, interactive, and convenient. It can also meet the need of individual-tailored service. With regards to the target learners, forms of the contents, course arrangement and studying methods, online education is incomparably superior. Thus the application of online teaching is one of the most effective ways to improve the teaching level. Based on the online courses teaching design theories, combined with the course of the computer operation system, the paper introduces the key technologies related to online course design and development, which is suggestive to other online courses studies.

scholarly journals Strategies to Increase Online Student Success for Students with Disabilities

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Betts ◽  
Alex Cohen ◽  
Daniel Veit ◽  
Henry C. Alphin ◽  
Chanel Broadus
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Online Programs ◽  
Online Student ◽  
Certificate Programs ◽  
Teaching Learning

Online education provides extensive opportunities for individuals with disabilities to enroll in degree and certificate programs. However, accessibility must be a key component of online program development since this can have a profound affect on student engagement in and outside of the online classroom, academic performance, and completion rates. This article provides a unique perspective on accessibility in online education. One current online student and three alumni of online programs provide video self-introductions, an overview of their online experience., and strategies for increasing student success in online courses and programs for students with disabilities. Strategies are also shared for integrating accessibility as a critical component within faculty development to ensure accessibility goes beyond the Office of Disability Services and becomes an integral part of online teaching, learning, and assessment.

scholarly journals A Computational Method for Enabling Teaching-Learning Process in Huge Online Courses and Communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Higinio Mora ◽  
Antonio Ferrández ◽  
David Gil ◽  
Jesús Peral
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Computational Method ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
New Education

<p class="33">Massive Open Online Courses and e-learning represent the future of the teaching-learning processes through the development of Information and Communication Technologies. They are the response to the new education needs of society. However, this future also presents many challenges such as the processing of online forums when a huge number of messages are generated. These forums provide an excellent platform for learning and connecting students of the subject, but the difficulties in following and searching the vast volume of information that they generate may produce the opposite effect. In this paper, we propose a computational method for enabling the educational process in huge online learning communities. This method analyses the forum information through Natural Language Processing techniques and extract the main topics discussed. The results generated improves the management of the forums, increases the effectiveness of the teachers’ explanations and reduces the time spent by students to follow the course. The proposal has been complemented with a real case study that shows promising results.</p>

Creating and Managing International Virtual Teams of Students in Management Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 124-140
Author(s):  
Emil Velinov ◽  
Juergen Bleicher ◽  
Paul L. Forrester
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Tertiary Institution ◽  
Future Design ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
European Business ◽  
Teaching Learning

This chapter provides an overview of how global virtual teams of undergraduates and graduates from three different countries are managed in order to achieve effective teaching-learning collaboration in the area of international business. The chapter uses evidence from a case study-based program used by a network of European business schools to discover and explore best practices when forming and leading collaborative student teams, working virtually and spatially. The study of this program suggests that there are particular challenges and opportunities in managing virtually international teams of students, which were amplified during COVID times in 2020. The study relates to the global virtual world of business education, where each tertiary institution is expected to embrace and manage the adapted and future design of programs and courses, where students necessarily had to deal with a wide variety of assignments whilst working virtually during times of national lockdowns.

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