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Designing and Implementing a Massive Open Online Course: Lessons Learnt
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In this paper, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, on good practice in the application of Intellectual Property. It is aimed primarily at teachers and students, and taught in Spanish. We have used the Spanish legislation on Intellectual Property. This paper outlines the structure and content of a course developed on an ad-hoc basis, and describes its evaluation by participants in questionnaires and a final survey. The results of the initial questionnaire are framed by a) the participant's profile, and b) by consideration of the MOOC´s implementation, given the results of the satisfaction survey. In this paper we describe the advantages of the MOOC and identify areas for improvement.
... [10][11][12][13], pedagogical design of MOOCs e.g. [14], issues on learners satisfaction with MOOCs for learning e.g. [15] and learners engagement on MOOC platforms e.g. ...
... We also noted that most of these studies obtained the dataset from Coursera, Udacity, EdX, FutureLearn and XeutangX MOOCs platform. Other common methods of data collection found in MOOCs are: discussion forum (33), observation (14), learner analytics (12) and ethnography (3). ...
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have revolutionized todays education by offering a global accessible form of online learning. Over the years, MOOCs have been an attractive research area and have yielded an ample amount of research publications. However, the existing review studies in MOOCs are characterized by short year coverage or focusing on a specific theme. As such, a systematic mapping methodology was adopted to provide a fine-grain overview of MOOC research domain by identifying the quantity, types of research, available results and publication trends in educational aspects of MOOCs from 2009 to 2018. Key findings show that I) MOOC research have been on the rise since MOOCs became mainstream in 2011. II) MOOC research largely resides in the United States and few European countries. II) Most of MOOC studies focused on addressing learners’completion/dropout/retention. In addition, we proposed some recommendations for future research on MOOCs.
... Bueno García et al., 2017;Sein- Echaluce et al., 2018). ...
Los recursos educativos en abierto han dado lugar a iniciativas muy importantes en la difusión de la educación a la sociedad. Iniciativas como los cursos OpenCourseWare (OCW) con la oferta online de recursos abiertos y su evolución a los cursos masivos abiertos en línea, los denominados MOOC. Muchos cursos OCW han pasado a convertirse en MOOC donde se incluye la participación de los usuarios, su tutorización y su evaluación. Pero los MOOC se estructuran muchas veces como un curso de formación al uso, donde el aprendiz debe superar unos pasos concretos para conseguir la certificación, lo que no es necesario en los cursos OCW. No obstante, los MOOCs son más dinámicos y el seguimiento de los participantes permite su mejora continua. En este trabajo se propone el modelo Dynamic OpenCourseWare (D-OCW) que da pautas para crear un curso OCW dinámico (en contenidos y en participación) a partir de la información obtenida de un MOOC sobre el mismo tema. El modelo se muestra con un caso concreto creando un curso OCW a partir de un MOOC sobre “Buenas prácticas en el uso académico de la propiedad intelectual” tema de actualidad en muchos ámbitos y una clara preocupación para las instituciones educativas.
The respect to the author's rights in academic contexts is an important concern of educational institutions. For this reason, besides the inclusion of software to detect plagiarism or any other legal measures, training on this respect should be one of their main objectives. This paper presents two editions of the MOOC "Good practices in the academic use of intellectual property." It is aimed primarily at teachers and students, and contains advice, examples, and legislation about the subject, for Spanish speakers. Two surveys (initial and final) allow to obtain results of the two editions and establish similarities and differences regarding the participant's profile, previous knowledge, the MOOC's completion, and the satisfaction of participants.
En numerosos estudios se señalan la masificación y la diversidad de perfiles de los participantes en los cursos masivos abiertos online (MOOC) como las principales causas de su baja tasa de finalización. Por otra parte, las metodologías de personalización del aprendizaje, junto a las tecnologías de la información, que permiten realizar técnicas de adaptatividad, figuran en informes internacionales como una forma eficaz de mejorar el aprendizaje. En este trabajo se explora la percepción de los participantes en MOOCs respecto a sus necesidades de adaptatividad en este tipo de cursos, así como su relación con distintos aspectos de los participantes, como sus perfiles (género, edad, ubicación geográfica y nivel académico), su experiencia previa o conocimiento sobre el tema del MOOC y su motivación para iniciar el MOOC. Se realiza el estudio a través de una encuesta cumplimentada por los participantes en el Campus MOOC de Innovación Educativa. Se concluye que la edad o género de los participantes no influye significativamente en su necesidad de técnicas adaptativas en un MOOC. Sin embargo, residir en un país de América Latina, tener una profesión de gestión o inscribirse en un MOOC con una motivación concreta son algunos de los factores que influyen en un mayor deseo de técnicas de adaptatividad en un MOOC. Los resultados obtenidos contribuirán a mejorar los diseños adaptativos de los MOOCs y son fácilmente transferibles a cualquier curso de formación en línea, en formación semipresencial o virtual.
The low completion rate for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), averaging 10 % across total enrolment, highlights a need for close analysis of the underlying formative model. The methodology used here involves cooperation among MOOC participants to introduce new resources through social networks and the integration of these resources with previous teacher materials. The paper describes two MOOCs on distinct topics using this methodology and implemented on the same platform. The observed outcomes indicate increased completion rates for both courses as compared with other MOOCs developed on the same platform. Additionally, although participants in the two MOOCs differed in profile and personal goals, they reported similar perceptions of the quality of the learning experience, which was influenced by the knowledge management approach developed in the proposed methodology.
Web-based training, known as e-learning, has experienced a great evolution and growth in recent years, as the capacity for education is no longer limited by physical and time constraints. The emergence of such a prized learning tool mandates a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness and implications of e-learning. Advances in E-Learning: Experiences and Methodologies explores the technical, pedagogical, methodological, tutorial, legal, and emotional aspects of e-learning, considering and analyzing its different application contexts, and providing researchers and practitioners with an innovative view of e-learning as a lifelong learning tool for scholars in both academic and professional spheres.
A new competence-based approach for personalizing MOOCs in a mobile collaborative and networked environment Un nuevo enfoque basado en competencias para la personalización de MOOCs en un entorno móvil colaborativo en red Abstract Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a disruptive new development in higher education which combines openness and scalability in a most powerful way. They have the potential to widen participation in higher education. Thus, they contribute to social inclusion, the dissemination of knowledge and pedagogical innovation and also the internationalization of higher education institutions. However, one of the critical elements for a massive open language learning experience to be successful is to empower learners and to facilitate networked learning experiences. In fact, MOOCs are designed for an undefined number of participants thus serving a high heterogeneity of profiles, with diverse learning styles and prior knowledge, and also contexts of participation and diversity of online platforms. Personalization can play a key role in this process. The iMOOC pedagogical model introduced the principle of diversity to MOOC design, allowing for a clear differentiation of learning paths and also virtual environments. In this article the authors present a proposal based on the iMOOC approach for a new framework for personalizing and adapting MOOCs designed in a collaborative, networked pedagogical approach by identifying each participant's competence profile and prior knowledge as well as the respective mobile communication device used and to generate matching personalized learning. This paper also shows the results obtained in a laboratory environment after an experiment has been performed with a prototype of the framework. It can be observed that creating personalized learning paths is possible and the next step is to test this framework with real experimental groups.
In 2008, a new term emerged in the already crowded e-learning landscape: MOOC, or massive open online course. Lifelong learners can now use various tools to build and manage their own learning networks, and MOOCs may provide opportunities to test such networks. This paper focuses on the technological aspects of one MOOC, the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08) course, in order to investigate lifelong learners’ attitudes towards learning network technologies. The research framework is represented by three perspectives: (a) lifelong learning in relation to open education, with a focus on the effective use of learning tools; (b) the more recent personal knowledge management (PKM) skills approach; and (c) the usability of web-based learning tools.
Findings from a survey of CCK08 participants show that the course attracted mainly adult, informal learners, who were unconcerned about course completion and who cited a lack of time as the main reason for incompletion. Time constraints, language barriers, and ICT skills affected the participants’ choice of tools; for example, learners favoured the passive, filtered mailing list over interactive but time-consuming discussion forums and blogs. Some recommendations for future MOOCs include highlighting the pedagogical purpose of the tools offered (e.g., learning network skill-building) and stating clearly that the learners can choose which tools they prefer to use. Further research on sustainability and instructor workload issues should be conducted to determine the cost and effectiveness of MOOCs. Investigation is also necessary to understand whether such terms as course, drop-out, and attrition are appropriate in relation to MOOCs.
In this work we will review the nature of MOOCs.We will analyse the requirements and characteristics attributed to their creators and their best known versions.We willsee whether educational profit isto be obtained,
and in that case, identify it. Furthermore, we will examine whether MOOCs can really be considered an innovation. We will also see in what context they occur and identify viable alternatives.
Our starting point will be the changes in the configuration and the basic characteristics of the Postindustrial
Society of Knowledge, which has its main basis, organization and wealth in knowledge. We ask whether the
nature of learning has changed and what the features that affect that change are. We conclude that the configuration of the emerging society makes for " value to be in the matrix, not in the issue," a fact rooted in
MOOCs.
The foundation of MOOCsliesin Connectivism, an epistemologicalsystem that providesinsightsinto how certain phenomena of learning occur between connected, but lacks the nature and structure of a theory.
The MOOCs we know lack instructional design and a methodology of their own. They are not evaluative or
researchful.They can not be integrated into research where grades are used asthe dependent variable,regardless of the independent variable.
Places to Go: Connectivism & Connective Knowledge
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Downes, S. 2008. Places to Go: Connectivism & Connective
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