Pilot research on the model we are presenting in this paper was published during the 9th EDEN Research Workshop: “Forging new pathways of research and innovation in open and distance learning”. In this paper, a full 3 year research is covered, accompanied by extended research questions. This...
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are presented as an option to the traditional model of higher education institutions. MOOCs have been used as part of face-to-face regular university courses as a new form of blended learning (BL), but little is known about the best ways to design effecti...
I highly encourage you to read the entire Innovating Pedagogy 2013 report to get the full picture. * * * * * * * * As you filter through the media hype surrounding education innovations and attempt to determine what is important and what isn’t, I hope you’ll join me in recoding educ...
Higher EducationMassive open online courses (MOOCs) are a new form of educational provision occupying a space between formal online courses and informal learning. Adopting measures used with formal online courses to assess the outcomes of MOOCs is often not informative because the context is very ...
Thus, there arises the need of having a blended model for education which must create a collaborative learning environment and enable the stakeholders in building shared understandings. The blended model of education is a method which offers a flexible mode of teaching and learning (Ayoub et al....
I, and I am guessing many others, are short steps away from full-blown customizations of individual courses and even entire curricula, drawing upon resources from around the world and contributing back to those resources. The implications of MOOCs for community between faculty and students, as ...
Full size table As shown in Table 1, the frequency of some topics of educational needs was very close to each other, including altered level of consciousness, internal medicine, respiratory infections in children, gastroenteritis, electrolyte disorders, trauma, and acute abdomen. The needs expressed...
Song, D., & Bonk, C. J. (2016). Motivational factors in self-directed informal learning from online learning resources.Cogent Education, 3. Available:http://cogentoa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2331186X.2016.1205838,http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2016.1205838andhttp://publicationshare...
such as Australia’sDeakin University– are now offering MOOC students the option to take an accredited examination (for a fee). This may be a stand-alone qualification, or in some cases may be accepted as equivalent to part of a full degree, encouraging MOOC students to become full ...
A design pattern approach, in the form of participatory pattern workshops, has been used to explore the design approaches that experts in the field of online learning have used to develop and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Over the course of 3 intensive workshops a total of 20 ...