MOOCs in Higher Education - Opportunities and threats Or how small can a learning unit be in university degree programmes?
Bang, Jørgen · Dalsgaard, Christian · Kjær, Arne · O'Donovan, Maria

PublishedOctober 2016
ConferenceEnhancing European Higher Education “Opportunities and impact of new modes of teaching”, Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference
Pages 543-553
PublisherEADTU
EditorsUbachs, George and Konings, Lizzie
RegionEurope

ABSTRACT
Overview of papers on enhancement of European Higher Education as presented during the Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference in Rome, October 2016.

MOOCs and Open Online Courses in general offer new pedagogical opportunities to support student-centred learning. Since 2012/13 the focus on the learning process has increased and today the result is a number of interesting approaches with abbreviations such as: BOOC - Blending Online and On-Campus Course, DOCC - Distributed Open Collaborative Course, HOOC - Hybrid Open Online Course, SMOC - Synchronous Massive Online Course and SPOC – Small Private Online Course, among others. All are examples of innovative ways to support personalised learning adapted to the local/national educational framework. Parallel to these developments, there is also an increasing interest within Higher Education to focus on short stand-alone courses and resource-based learning. This might support flexibility in educational programmes, but at the same time challenges the reflective dimension of degree programmes. In this paper, we discuss the pedagogical framework for integrating MOOCS and Open Online Courses in Higher Education in order to explore opportunities and to avoid threats. Furthermore, we discuss how learning units (integration of Open Educational Resources with learning activities) may support the reflective dimension in higher education offering open online courses.

Keywords higher education · independent learners · innovative teaching and learning · Lifelong Learning · Open Educational Resources · open online courses · skilled learners · student-centred learning

Published atRome, Italy
ISSN978-90-79730-25-4
RefereedYes
RightsCopyright © 2016 European Association of Distance Teaching Universities and the authors. All rights reserved.
URLhttps://conference.eadtu.eu/php/downloadFile.php?mediaId=2415&fileName=
Export optionsBibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar


Viewed by 73 distinct readers




CLOUD COMMUNITY REVIEWS

The evaluations below represent the judgements of our readers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Cloud editors.

Click a star to be the first to rate this document


POST A COMMENT
SIMILAR RECORDS

MOOCs without the M: Open Online Courses as an educational strategy for Opening up Education in smaller language areas
Bang, Jørgen; Dalsgaard, Christian; Kjær, Arne; O'Donovan, Maria
So far the success of MOOCs has been measured through two parameters. On the one hand the number of course participants counted in thousands or ten thousands, and on the other hand, the dropout rate. For small language ...
Match: Bang, Jørgen; Dalsgaard, Christian; Kjær, Arne; O'Donovan, Maria; independent learners; Lifelong Learning; Open Educational Resources; open online courses; skilled learners; Europe

Opportunities and threats of the MOOC movement for higher education: The European perspective
Schuwer, Robert; Jaurena, Ines Gil; Aydin, Cengiz Hakan; Costello, Eamon; et al.
The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) movement is the latest ‘big thing’ in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) which threatens to transform Higher Education. Both opportunities and threats are extensively discussed in ...
Match: Dalsgaard, Christian; opportunities; Europe

MOOCs in Europe: Overview of papers representing a collective European response on MOOCs as presented during the HOME conference in Rome November 2015
Bang, Joergen; Dalsgaard, Christian; Kjaer, Arne; O’Donovan, Maria; et al.
Table of contents Foreword Part 1: Regional MOOC initiatives Building OOC layers on top of existing courses (M)OOCs in Iceland: Language and learning communities EduOpen network in Italy Part 2: Role media ...
Match: Dalsgaard, Christian; higher education; independent learners

Lifelong learning and partnerships: rethinking the boundaries of the university in the digital age
Cannell, Pete
Higher education (HE) in Scotland has some very specific characteristics: a relatively small number of HE institutions (HEIs), nineteen at the time of writing; a strong college sector, which makes a significant ...
Match: higher education; Lifelong Learning; Open Educational Resources

Integrating MOOCs in regular higher education: Challenges and opportunities from a Scandinavian perspective
Dalipi, Fisnik; Ferati, Mexhid; Kurti, Arianit; Zaphiris, Panayiotis; Ioannou, Andri
MOOCs are increasingly being considered by universities as an integral part of their curriculum. Nevertheless, there are several challenges that to some extent slow this process, where the most important one is the ...
Match: opportunities; higher education; Europe

Open educational resources in Europe: A triptych of actions to support participation in higher education
Kirschner, Paul A.; Varvick, Peter; van Dorp, Cornelis Adrianus; Lane, Andy
In contrast to the face-to-face learning of campus based universities and the focus on traditional students, distance teaching universities focus on a mix of distance learning, e-learning, open learning, virtual ...
Match: higher education; Lifelong Learning; Europe

How directing formal students to institutionally-delivered OER supports their success
Law, Patrina
The OpenLearn platform was launched in 2006 with the aim of delivering excerpts of the Open University’s (UK) (OU) curriculum as open educational resources (OER). Now reaching over 8.5m learners a year, the platform ...
Match: higher education; Europe

Exploring OER awareness and engagement of academics from a Global South perspective - a case study from Ghana
Loglo, Frank Senyo; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf
This study explored how academics in a Ghanaian university conceptualized and engaged with OER through a qualitative approach (in-depth interviews). “Access” emerged as the most dominant theme in how OER was ...
Match: higher education; Europe

OER dossier: Open Educational Resources and higher education
Poposki, Dimitar
Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER) represent the core values of the free sharing of knowledge. By following their beginnings, understanding their concepts, theways in which they are used by the ...
Match: higher education; Lifelong Learning; Europe

Openness and praxis: Exploring the use of open educational practices in higher education
Cronin, Catherine
Open educational practices (OEP) is a broad descriptor of practices that include the creation, use, and reuse of open educational resources (OER) as well as open pedagogies and open sharing of teaching practices. As ...
Match: higher education; Open Educational Resources; Europe