PEDAGOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF MASSIVE OPEN DISTANCE COURSES

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...

Supporting Pedagogical Strategies for Distance Learning Courses

Educational portals, for distance learning courses, have a broader and more focused set of objectives and requirements that, typically, go well beyond the basic and commonly used portal definition as the gateway to the information, Web services and networks. As a matter of fact, portals, when adopted in distance learning strategies, are among the most important embedded design elements in cours...

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...