A Persona-based Extension for Massive Open Online Courses in Accessible Design

Toward Emotionally Accessible Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

This paper outlines an approach to evaluating the emotional content of three Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) using the affective computing approach of prosody detection on two different text-to-speech voices in conjunction with human raters judging the emotional content of course text. The intent of this work is to establish the potential variation on the emotional delivery of MOOC material...

Massive Open Online Courses

Massive Open Online Courses

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a new addition to the open educational provision. They are offered mainly by prestigious universities on various commercial and non-commercial MOOC platforms allowing anyone who is interested to experience the world class teaching practiced in these universities. MOOCs have attracted wide interest from around the world. However, learner demographics in MO...

Explorer Massive Open Online Courses

Designing Massive Open Online Courses

Connective massive open online courses (MOOC) for teachers from Ukraine and Russia were conducted in 2011-2013. They were: Strategy of Distance Learning in the Organization, Social Services in Distance Learning, Distance Learning from A to Z, Designing Online Courses. The accumulated experience allowed to develop recommendations for each ADDIE step of MOOC designing for the Russian-speaking aud...