Adapting massive open online courses for medical education

Recognition and Analysis of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Aesthetics for the Sustainable Education

The present study was conducted to recognize and analyze the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) aesthetics for sustainable education. For this purpose, two methods of the exploratory search (qualitative) and the questionnaire (quantitative) were used for data collection. The research sample in the qualitative section included the electronic resources related to the topic and in the quantitative ...

Massive Open Online Courses: Innovation in Education?

Researchers have extensively chronicled the trends and challenges in higher education (Altbach et al. 2009). MOOCs appear to be as much about the collective grasping of universities’ leaders to bring higher education into the digital age as they are about a particular method of teaching. In this chapter, I won’t spend time commenting on the role of MOOCs in educational transformation or even wh...

Adapting Collaborative Chat for Massive Open Online Courses: Lessons Learned

In this paper we explore how to import intelligent support for group learning that has been demonstrated as effective in classroom instruction into a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) context. The Bazaar agent architecture paired with an innovative Lobby tool to enable coordination for synchronous reflection exercises provides a technical foundation for our work. We describe lessons learned, di...

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...