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What is Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Chapter 6
Revitalizing the Learning Ecosystem for Modern Students
The process of delivering the learning content through online.
Published in Chapter:
Learner-Centric Teaching Practices for Achieving Learning Outcomes
Suja A. Alex (St. Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering, India)
Copyright: © 2024 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-4103-2.ch006
Abstract
Education is successful only when it balances both teaching design and the learning outcome. The role of an educational system is to empower students and make them life-long learners. There are various forms of innovative pedagogy to boost learner-centric teaching and learning in an educational system. This enables the students to become active learners in the classroom. The performance of a student in terms of learning outcome is required at the end of a course. This chapter will address various problems when using traditional teaching techniques in diverse learner environments and approaches to enable learner-centric teaching to reach the learning outcomes of a student.
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Chapter 10
Learning Design in Higher Education: Building Communities of Practice
An online course, open to anyone to join at no charge, typically with large numbers of students.
Published in Chapter: Learning Design in Higher Education: Building Communities of Practice; From: Measurement Methodologies to Assess the Effectiveness of Global Online Learning
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Chapter 31
MOOCs: A Three Dimensions Analysis of Impact in Higher Education
MOOC provides open access without charge to an online course of study over the Web to a very large number of people. MOOCs provide learning and assessment materials, videos, readings and interactive features for users like forums that help build a community for the students and professors.
Published in Chapter: MOOCs: A Three Dimensions Analysis of Impact in Higher Education; From: Handbook of Research on Learning Outcomes and Opportunities in the Digital Age
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Investigating Asynchronous Interaction Between MOOC Learners Through Forum Use and Peer Review
A usually free online course, available over the internet, open to anyone and potentially having a huge number of enrolled participants.
Published in Chapter: Investigating Asynchronous Interaction Between MOOC Learners Through Forum Use and Peer Review; From: Opening Up Education for Inclusivity Across Digital Economies and Societies
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Chapter 18
Evaluation of Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, and Open EdX
It is a result of the openness movement, which has emerged as an extension of the distance education approach, offered to lifelong learners in a pedagogical context. “Massive” represents the number of people who can take the lesson at the same time may be more than usual and the diversity; The word “open” means the removal of obstacles to access to learning, the word “online” means the learning approach based on computer networks, and the word “course” means the teaching content to be given with a specific pedagogical approach.
Published in Chapter: Evaluation of Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, and Open EdX; From: ICT-Based Assessment, Methods, and Programs in Tertiary Education
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Chapter 8
Peripheral Vision: Engaging Multimodal Social Media Datasets to Differentiate MOOC Platforms by Course Offerings and User Bases
Online courses that enable large-scale enrollments of learners (tens of thousands) from around the world for tuition costs for some learners and free for others.
Published in Chapter: Peripheral Vision: Engaging Multimodal Social Media Datasets to Differentiate MOOC Platforms by Course Offerings and User Bases; From: Methods for Analyzing and Leveraging Online Learning Data
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Chapter 7
Learning Environments: Physical Classrooms or Virtual Worlds
A course of study offered online to many people across distance usually at no cost.
Published in Chapter: Learning Environments: Physical Classrooms or Virtual Worlds; From: Metamodernism and Changing Literacy: Emerging Research and Opportunities
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Chapter 19
A Digital Escape Rooms for Learning General Physics in HEIs: Building the Universe in Five Rooms
An online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the Web ( Kaplan & Haenlein, 2016 ).
Published in Chapter: A Digital Escape Rooms for Learning General Physics in HEIs: Building the Universe in Five Rooms; From: Handbook of Research on Using Disruptive Methodologies and Game-Based Learning to Foster Transversal Skills
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Open by Degrees: Personalization at Degree and Module Level
A model for delivering learning content online and providing open access via the internet.
Published in Chapter: Open by Degrees: Personalization at Degree and Module Level; From: Enhancing Higher Education Accessibility Through Open Education and Prior Learning
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Chapter 20
Motivational Active Learning in Blended and Virtual Learning Scenarios: Engaging Students in Digital Learning
An open access e-learning course or environment, which allows a large number of participants to participate in a course.
Published in Chapter: Motivational Active Learning in Blended and Virtual Learning Scenarios: Engaging Students in Digital Learning; From: Handbook of Research on Engaging Digital Natives in Higher Education Settings
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Chapter 17
Informal Individual Learning via Virtual Professional Development: A Proposal for Massive Open Online Professional Informal Individual Learning (MOOPIL)
An online course that is delivered to many participants either with or without a facilitator/instructor. They feature videos, readings, assessments, discussion forums, and other materials. Well-known MOOC providers include Coursera, Udacity, and edX.
Published in Chapter: Informal Individual Learning via Virtual Professional Development: A Proposal for Massive Open Online Professional Informal Individual Learning (MOOPIL); From: Handbook of Research on Innovative Technology Integration in Higher Education
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Interactivity in Distance Education and Computer-Aided Learning, With Medical Education Examples
An online course (often a university course) that offers unlimited participation, open access via the web, and automatic evaluation of the learner’s progress.
Published in Chapter: Interactivity in Distance Education and Computer-Aided Learning, With Medical Education Examples; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 19
Enhancing the Quality of Computer Science Education with MOOCs in Sub-Saharan Africa
An online course aimed at large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for the students, professors, and faculty members.
Published in Chapter: Enhancing the Quality of Computer Science Education with MOOCs in Sub-Saharan Africa; From: Handbook of Research on Active Learning and the Flipped Classroom Model in the Digital Age
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Developments in MOOC Technologies and Participation Since 2012
An online educational course that is open to anyone to participate, often free of cost.
Published in Chapter: Developments in MOOC Technologies and Participation Since 2012; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the Technologies That Support Learning with Them
An online educational course that is open to anyone to participate, often free of cost.
Published in Chapter: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the Technologies That Support Learning with Them; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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Chapter 8
Information Literacy in Virtual Environments: Changing Needs of P-12 Learners
An open access course developed for online users at low cost or no cost on a large scale.
Published in Chapter: Information Literacy in Virtual Environments: Changing Needs of P-12 Learners; From: Handbook of Research on Gaming Trends in P-12 Education
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Chapter 19
COVID-19 and Inequities in Education: An Indian Context
A web-based flexible learning system designed for students aimed to provide free access of resources.
Published in Chapter: COVID-19 and Inequities in Education: An Indian Context; From: Handbook of Research on Inequities in Online Education During Global Crises
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Chapter 13
Inverted Constructivism to Leverage Mobile-Technology-Based Active Learning
Courses available online that are aimed at unlimited participation through the open access of the internet consisting of traditional course materials such as films lectures, reading materials as well as interactive forums and collaborative communities for student interaction.
Published in Chapter: Inverted Constructivism to Leverage Mobile-Technology-Based Active Learning; From: Handbook of Research on Mobile Technology, Constructivism, and Meaningful Learning
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Chapter 13
Online Teaching: Applying Distance Learning Principles to MOOCs
A recent development in distance education. It is an online course with large number of students and open access to course materials including as videos, quizzes, readings and discussion forums. There are cMOOCs which primarily make use of the power of social media and interaction. These are based on the idea of connectivism. xMOOCs on the other hand are based on the interaction of the participant with the content provided in the course and are sometimes called behaviourist MOOCs.
Published in Chapter: Online Teaching: Applying Distance Learning Principles to MOOCs; From: Handbook of Research on Emerging Priorities and Trends in Distance Education: Communication, Pedagogy, and Technology
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Chapter 33
Facilitating Active Learning among Adult Learners
Offering mostly free eLearning opportunities to any learner having access to Internet.
Published in Chapter: Facilitating Active Learning among Adult Learners; From: Handbook of Research on Teaching and Learning in K-20 Education
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