Towards MOOCs and Their Role in Engineering Education

Iqbal, Sajid; Zang, Xizhe; Zhu, Yanhe; Hussain, Danish; Zhao, Jie; Gulzar, Muhammad Majid; Rasheed, Shahid

doi:10.1109/itme.2015.89

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“…The compatibility of online learning with social science and humanities has been proved effective while researchers have also contested its compatibility with sports sciences, engineering and medical sciences where hands-on practical experiences are required as part of instructional activities (Leszczyński et al, 2018). Remote laboratories are used as alternative laboratories in online learning and such virtual laboratories offered by online learning can only fill the theory-to-practice hole (Iqbal et al, 2015). Online learning cannot be effectively and efficiently applied in some disciplines and this compatibility gap is yet to be filled (Leszczyński et al, 2018).…”

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Covid-19 pandemic and online learning: the challenges and opportunities

Adedoyin

Soykan

2020

Interactive Learning Environments

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The World Health Organization has declared Covid-19 as a pandemic that has posed a contemporary threat to humanity. This pandemic has successfully forced global shutdown of several activities, including educational activities, and this has resulted in tremendous crisisresponse migration of universities with online learning serving as the educational platform. The crisis-response migration methods of universities, faculty and students, challenges and opportunities were discussed and it is evident that online learning is different from emergency remote teaching, online learning will be more sustainable while instructional activities will become more hybrid provided the challenges experienced during this pandemic are well explored and transformed to opportunities.

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Section: Compatibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Covid-19 pandemic and online learning: the challenges and opportunities

Adedoyin

Soykan

2020

Interactive Learning Environments

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“…In contrast, researchers have contested the capacity of OL to partner with other disciplines like medical and sports sciences, where the application of hands-on experiences is necessary to effective learning (Leszczynski et al, 2018). The method for obtaining this goal relies on remote laboratories utilized in OL and virtual laboratories provided by OL, the distance between theory and practice (Iqbal et al, 2015). With the ubiquity of OL, it can be applied in various disciplines, but, at the moment, it is not able to be effectively and efficiently employed, and the large open gap remains unfilled at this time (Leszczynski et al, 2018).…”

Section: Compatibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The challenges and opportunities of online learning during Covid-19 pandemic

Quang

Tri

2021

HCMCOUJS - SOCIAL SCIENCES

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As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread over a year after the original outbreak, it is critical to have an open mind about the innovations higher education institutions (HEIs) have implemented to keep teaching going, as they may help HEIs if appropriately implemented. The pandemic has caused many activities, including traditional educational activities, to be shut down. This has necessitated a vast wave of response migration for HEIs with Online Learning (OL) as the educational platform. This paper conducts desk research to review the challenges and opportunities of OL during Covid-19 pandemic. It was apparent that OL is diﬀerent from emergency remote teaching, and as a result, OL is more justifiable. The unique aspects of the crisis response migration strategies of HEIs, teachers, and learners were discussed. Our findings offer insights for HEIs and especially educational managers, teachers, and learners to be aware of such challenges and opportunities to deal with them.

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“…Technical education or engineering education is the teaching and learning process that is associated with the practice of the engineering profession. Theoretical and conceptual learning for each technical subject is fundamental however, the practice-based learning is the critical element in the engineering profession [13], [29]. Thus, the laboratory exercises are a distinctive element that builds up the technical education.…”

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“…Moreover, in technical courses, the attendance of students in laboratories is necessary, and the theory must be practiced and conveyed through hands-on training [30]. In reflection with the online learning, where in this case we are referring to the development of technical MOOCs, few researchers suggested that the inclusion of the elements of virtual laboratories, remote laboratories, inperson laboratories or simulators can be considered as one of the options in implementing the theory-to-practice element in online courses [5], [13], [29]- [31].…”

Section: A Technical Education and Moocsmentioning

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Wearable Technology in Education to Enhance Technical MOOCs

Fesol

Salam

Bakar

2018

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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The low completion rate issue in MOOCs has become one of the main highlights by researchers. It is reported that only 10 to 15 percent of the students were able to complete the MOOCs. This low completion rate is due to the students are less engaged with the MOOCs content causing them to become demotivated to complete the whole MOOCs. Engaging students in MOOCs environment, especially for non-technical subjects, suited very well. However, for technical MOOCs, it involves significant challenges because technical MOOCs must be able to offer the students with practice-oriented learning outcome in-order for the MOOCs to be effective and engaging. Due to the above issue, this paper discussed an improvised MOOCs model for teaching technical subjects with the intervention in the use of wearable technology. A discussion on the e-content and e-activity of the technical MOOC learning design was presented. This study implemented the proposed technical MOOC model through the MOOC development. The students' perception of the technical MOOC was then evaluated, and all the results were explained in the discussion part. Results of the correlation test revealed that all of the technical MOOC variables correlated substantially and held a positive relationship with students' perception variable with r=.3 to 1.0, p < .0005. In addition, this result also suggests that the learning materials produced by wearable technology do contribute towards the positive effect of students' perception when learning technical MOOC.

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Towards MOOCs and Their Role in Engineering Education

Cited by 19 publications

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Covid-19 pandemic and online learning: the challenges and opportunities

Covid-19 pandemic and online learning: the challenges and opportunities

The challenges and opportunities of online learning during Covid-19 pandemic

Wearable Technology in Education to Enhance Technical MOOCs

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