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McGreal, Rory

This evaluation report reflects on the activities of three Regional Centres (RCs) established by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and regional partners. Regional Centres engage in capacity building and expansion of ...

Match: established

SCORE2020

The SCORE2020 project focused on (regional) support structures in the development and delivery of Open Education and especially of MOOCs. In total, thirteen intellectual outputs are ...

Match: MOOC accreditation

Zheng, Qinhua; Chen, Li; Burgos, Daniel

MOOCs' high dropout rate has been widely criticized. It is one of the measures to reduce the dropout rate by establishing a perfect learning support service system and enhancing the learning support service capacity. ...

Match: drop-out rates

Venegas Muggli, Juan Ignacio; Westermann, Werner

This article examines the effect of two Open Educational Resources (OER) - Khan Academy Collection and a teacher-authored open textbook - on mathematical course performance and attendance amongst first-year higher ...

Match: Khan Academy

Engle, Will; UBC

UBC recently published a report on the design and delivery of its initial MOOC pilot. UBC delivered its first five MOOCs on the Coursera platform during the spring and summer of 2013. The open courses provided thousands ...

Match: Coursera

Prabhakar, T V

Week 2: Architecture of a MOOC, module 5 of the MOOC on MOOC course offered by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) & Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in September 2014. This resource contains a video link, ...

Match: drop-out rates

Soffer, Tal; Cohen, Anat; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne

The study presented in this paper examines the feasibility of using MOOCs as a learning environment in academic courses. This paper focuses on the students who participated in two MOOCs offered by Tel Aviv University ...

Match: Coursera

Malin, Joel R.

In this article, I apply autoethnography to recount and analyze my experiences as a recent enrollee and course completer of a massive open online course (MOOC). Research surrounding MOOCs heretofore has been ...

Match: MOOC attrition

Perris, Kirk

The MOOC on MOOCs course offered jointly by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT‐K), and the Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP), in the fall, 2014, ...

Match: MOOC accreditation

Ross, Jen; Sinclair, Christine; Knox, Jeremy; Bayne, Siân; Macleod, Hamish

The way teachers are represented in relation to massive open online courses (MOOCs) has created a limited and unhelpful characterization of an important role. The key argument put forward in this position paper is that ...

Match: Coursera