MOOC pedagogy: Gleaning good practice from existing MOOCs
| Published | March 2014 |
| Type of work | Position Paper |
| Journal | MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 44-56 |
ABSTRACT
The revolutionary potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has been met with much skepticism, particularly in terms of the quality of learning offered. Believing that a focus on learning is more important than a focus on course completion rates, this position paper presents a pedagogical assessment of MOOCs using Chickering and Gamson's Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education and Bloom's taxonomy, based on the author's personal experience as a learner in four xMOOCs. Although most xMOOCs have similar characteristics, the author shows that they are not all offered in exactly the same way, and some provide more sound pedagogy that develops higher order thinking, whereas others do not. The author uses this evaluation, as well as reviews of other xMOOCs in the literature, to glean some good pedagogical practices in xMOOCs and areas for improvement.| Keywords | Bloom's taxonomy · · pedagogy · Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education · xMOOC |
| ISSN | 1558-9528 |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | by-nc-sa/3.0/us |
| URL | http://jolt.merlot.org/vol10no1/bali_0314.pdf |
| Other information | JOLT |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
AVAILABLE FILES
Viewed by 39 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
Output 9 SCORE2020: Evidence based practice for teachers and institutions using MOOCs
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: practice
Knowledge typologies for professional learning: Educators’ (re)generation of knowledge when learning open educational practice
Hood, Nina; Littlejohn, Allison
Open education resources (OER) and accompanying open education practices(OEP), are changing the education landscape. For educators to take full advantage of the opportunities OER offer they must engage in learning ...
Match: practice
Learning design- Making practice explicit
Conole, Gráinne
New technologies have immense potential for learning, but the sheer variety possible also creates challenges for learners in terms of navigating through an increasingly complex digital landscape and for teachers in ...
Match: practice
Formation of communities of practice to promote openness in education
Burgos-Aguilar, Vladimir J.; Mortera-Gutierrez, Fernando J.; Ehlers, Ulf-Daniel; Koskinen
This article presents the educational experiences of an inter-institutional project that consisted in forming a Community of Practice (CoP) among Mexican educational institutions, in 2009. The main goal of this project ...
Match: practice
The potential role of Open Educational Practice policy in transforming Australian higher education
Bossu, Carina; Stagg, Adrian
Open Educational Practices (OEP) have played an important role in assisting educational institutions and governments worldwide to meet their current and future educational targets in widening participation, lowering ...
Match: practice
Frameworks for understanding the nature of interactions, networking, and community in a social networking site for academic practice
Conole, Grainne; Galley, Rebecca; Culver, Juliette; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne
This paper describes a new social networking site, Cloudworks, which has been developed to enable discussion and sharing of learning and teaching ideas/designs and to promote reflective academic practice. The site aims ...
Match: practice
Librarians and OER: Cultivating a community of practice to be more effective advocates
Smith, Brenda; Lee, Leva
As the costs of scholarly and educational publications skyrocket, open educational resources (OER) are becoming an important way to provide content and enhance the teaching and learning experience. Librarians have a key ...
Match: practice
Journeys to open educational practice: UKOER/SCORE review final report
McGill, L.; Falconer, I.; Dempster, J A.; Littlejohn, A.; Beetham, H.
In 2008 the JISC Good Intentions report concluded that the landscape around learning materials had changed sufficiently to support a range of sustainable models for sharing. The report charted and acknowledged the long ...
Match: practice
Designing reflective practice in the context of OER-based e-Learning
Karunanayaka, Shironica; Naidu, Som; Rajendra, J C N.; Ratnayake, H U W.
Much is said about the importance of reflective practice especially in the professions. Yet much of what happens as part of reflective practice in the professions such as teaching is most of the time left to chance. ...
Match: practice
Application of practice of teaching reform of Open Educational Resources in environmental science specialty
Wang, Qi; Tan, HH
Open educational resources movement is an important tendency in western universities in recent years. Teaching reform of open educational resources in environmental science specialty carried out in school of life and ...
Match: practice
