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Designing MOOCs for the support of multiple learning styles
Grünewald, Franka · Meinel, Christoph · Totschnig, Michael · Willems, Christian · Hernández-Leo, Davinia [secondary] · Ley, Tobias [secondary] · Klamma, Ralf [secondary] · Harrer, Andreas [secondary]

Published2013
ConferenceScaling up Learning for Sustained Impact
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 8095, Pages 371-382
PublisherSpringer Berlin Heidelberg
CountryGermany, Europe

ABSTRACT
"Internetworking with TCP/IP'' is a Massive Open Online Course, held in German at openHPI end of 2012, that attracted a large audience that has not been in contact with higher education before. The course followed the xMOOC model based on a well-defined sequence of learning content, mainly video lectures and interactive self-tests, and with heavy reliance on social collaboration features. From 2726 active participants, 38% have participated in a survey at the end of the course. This paper presents an analysis of the survey responses with respect to the following questions: 1) How can a MOOC accommodate different learning styles and 2) What recommendations for the design and organization of a MOOC can be concluded from the responses? We finally give an outlook on challenges for the further development of openHPI. Those challenges are based on didactical and technical affordances for a better support of the different learning styles. We propose an evolution of the xMOOC, that bridges the gap to the cMOOC model by developing tools that allow users to create diverging paths through the learning material, involve the user personally in the problem domain with (group) hands-on exercises and reward user contributions by means of gamification.

Keywords active learning · culture of participation · gamification · learning styles · massive open online courses

Published atBerlin, Heidelberg
ISBN978-3-642-40814-4
RefereedYes
RightsSpringer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
DOI10.1007/978-3-642-40814-4_29
URLhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-40814-4_29
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