A collaborative and open solution for large‐scale online learning

Abstract

Collaborative Open Online Courses (COOC), designed as the enhanced variance of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), inherently combines the advantages of high‐quality online resources and face‐to‐face classroom teaching. It stimulates the collaboration and improvement of courses between educators and learners, by realizing the innovation for dynamic and real‐time education process, fostering professional skill acquisition and development as well. In this paper, we propose the novel concept and architectural design of COOC that provides the online course, courseware, and online experimental platform, built on top of third party's open source platforms. The preparation of courses is based on GitHub that facilitates multipoint‐to‐multipoint online courses and concurrent compilation of textbook based on GitBook, by providing open source textbooks and rapid updates as well as remote operations through online experimental platforms. The major differences between MOOC and COOC include decentralized platform and adoption of concepts through crowdsourcing, where instructors, professionals, and learners are able to set up and modify the courses independently and concurrently, empowering the course's construction based on the collaborative, open and shared textbooks, and online experimental platform. Users, including both teachers and learners, are also able to browse, download, and make use of courses in this platform. With embedded intellectual property and quality control mechanisms, such as Creative Commons (CC) licenses, COOC platform can generate and offer high‐quality courses and textbooks of emerging knowledge rapidly through consistent updates by professionals, students, and elites in related domains. The proposed design has been tested at trial Chinese universities and initial feedback from instructors and students are very positive. Insights on techniques and related information are provided, to best adapt to any vocational education level, subject matter, or courseware provider.

An online course mode based on microlecture videos: Using CAD geometric modeling course as an example

“…Existing online course approaches can be usually divided into four categories: (i) real‐time online live lectures [2,3,10,15,17]; (ii) microlecture videos [8,18–20,25,29–31]; (iii) SPOC [6,23,32,34]; and (iv) courses that blend SPOC and conventional classrooms [32]. One of these approaches solves one or several ones among these problems.…”

“…For the third and fourth categories, SPOC is a course system that is composed of microlecture videos. There are many platforms that support SPOC [34]. As a system of microlecture videos is usually constructed before class, students can review these short videos any time according to their individual needs.…”

Crowdlearning: estratégia frente aos Desafios de Aprendizado no Ensino Superior

“…Dentre essas diferentes categorias da economia colaborativa, o crowdlearning é um formato instrucional ou de educação baseado na cooperação e que objetiva estimular a colaboração e a integração entre os participantes por meio de ferramentas ou plataformas digitais (ZHOU et al, 2018). Embora categorizado como educação à distância (EaD), modalidade de ensino já consolidada em várias sociedades, segundo Zhou et al (2018), a principal e fundamental inovação em crowdlearning está na cooperação por meio das ferramentas colaborativas com foco na integração entre docentes e discentes.…”

Open collaboration between universities and enterprises: a case study on GitHub

“…In turn, universities advocate and encourage senior students to participate in commercial activities, and a third-party SCP can provide students (and researchers) with online courses, courseware and online experimental platforms (Zhou et al, 2018). Studies have shown that senior students are more willing to obtain the latest information from online learning platforms than from offline platforms (Waheed et al, 2016).…”