Are You MOOC-ing Yet?  A Review for Academic Libraries

Creed-Dikeogu, Gloria; Clark, Carolyn

doi:10.4148/culs.v1i0.1830

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“…The founding of providers such as Udacity and Coursera in 2012 gave the first boost to the offering of these MOOCs [2], and to the gradual improvement of their platforms. Today, these courses are classified mainly as cMOOCs, which are developed from the experimental principles of connectivist learning; xMOOCs, which follow more traditional educational approaches, and the subtypes derived from them (TransferMOOCs, MadeMOOCs, SynchMOOCs, AsynchMOOCs, AdaptiveMOOCs, GroupMOOCs, ConnectivistMOOCS, and MiniMOOCSs) [3]; or Micro-NOOC [4]. In terms of design, the courses share technological innovation, which is understood as the improvement of teaching and learning processes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Massive Open Online Courses in the Initial Training of Social Science Teachers: Experiences, Methodological Conceptions, and Technological Use for Sustainable Development

Sánchez

Trigueros

2019

Sustainability

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This article analyzes, on the one hand, the perception of future teachers (n = 162) on the degree of acquisition of the Digital Teaching Competition (CCD) in the teachers’ formative contexts. On the other hand, this article analyzes future teachers’ social representations about the potential contribution of educational technologies, in particular the massive open online courses (MOOCs), to comply with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A questionnaire validated by three Spanish universities is applied, and a quantitative analysis of the data is used. The results obtained inform the educational need to transfer the progress and generalization of information and communication technologies (ICT) for education for sustainable development in teacher training curricula.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Massive Open Online Courses in the Initial Training of Social Science Teachers: Experiences, Methodological Conceptions, and Technological Use for Sustainable Development

Sánchez

Trigueros

2019

Sustainability

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“…The affordances of MOOCs for specific disciplines and topics have been discussed by a number of authors with subjects including Computing [102], Engineering [43], Medicine [72,94], Library Studies [11,20], Physics [1] and Law [91].…”

Section: Individual Xmoocs and Subject Interestmentioning

confidence: 99%

Massive open online courses: a review of usage and evaluation

Sinclair

Boyatt

Rocks

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IJLT

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The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has seen a dramatic rise in prominence over the last five years and is heralded by some as disrupting existing pedagogy and practices within the education sector, while others are far more sceptical about the impact of MOOCs. Numerous courses are now being offered on a number of different platforms, with participant numbers for some individual courses reaching hundreds of thousands. Expectations are high for what these courses can achieve in terms of opening access, widening participation and cost saving. In this paper we conduct a literature review to examine what is known about MOOCs (both those following the original connectivist model and the more traditionally didactic variety) and what indications there are that they can live up to such expectations. We discuss concerns arising from the review and identify issues including lack of evidence, absence of pedagogy, lack of support and unrealistic expectations particularly on beginner learners.

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“…This preference for open or public domain content is shared by many academic librarians active in the field (Butler 2012;Creed-Dikeogu and Clark 2013;O'Brien 2013;Proffitt 2013;Smith 2013). This approach can also yield longer-term benefits.…”

Section: The Promotion Of Open Contentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This responsibility can be daunting: involving an average of 380 staff hours for each Coursera MOOC (Proffitt 2013). Not surprisingly, the legal aspects of copyright clearance have been the topic of extensive discussions among research librarians in the United States (Butler 2012;Butler et al 2013;Creed-Dikeogu and Clark 2013).…”

Section: Copyright Clearancementioning

confidence: 99%