MOOC Makers: Professors’ Experiences With Developing and Delivering MOOCs

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been described as purposeful educational resources for teaching, open educational initiatives, competency-based learning, and the like. They have also been described as an agent of higher education’s deterioration. Although MOOCs are often discussed in terms...

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Autor principal:	Stephanie Blackmon
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2018
Materias:	teaching MOOC online teaching online learning OER distance education Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/e4860773a0274173a6e9ac89c3f63b96
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e4860773a0274173a6e9ac89c3f63b962021-12-02T17:16:06ZMOOC Makers: Professors’ Experiences With Developing and Delivering MOOCs10.19173/irrodl.v19i4.37181492-3831https://doaj.org/article/e4860773a0274173a6e9ac89c3f63b962018-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3718https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been described as purposeful educational resources for teaching, open educational initiatives, competency-based learning, and the like. They have also been described as an agent of higher education’s deterioration. Although MOOCs are often discussed in terms of their current and future usefulness, or lack thereof, in higher education contexts, very little data exists on professors’ experiences creating and teaching these courses. Therefore, I conducted a qualitative study, more specifically a phenomenography, to examine professors’ experiences with developing and teaching a MOOC. Data include their thoughts on why they decided to teach a MOOC and the benefits and challenges associated with making and teaching a MOOC. Stephanie BlackmonAthabasca University PressarticleteachingMOOConline teachingonline learningOERdistance educationSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 19, Iss 4 (2018)
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description	Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been described as purposeful educational resources for teaching, open educational initiatives, competency-based learning, and the like. They have also been described as an agent of higher education’s deterioration. Although MOOCs are often discussed in terms of their current and future usefulness, or lack thereof, in higher education contexts, very little data exists on professors’ experiences creating and teaching these courses. Therefore, I conducted a qualitative study, more specifically a phenomenography, to examine professors’ experiences with developing and teaching a MOOC. Data include their thoughts on why they decided to teach a MOOC and the benefits and challenges associated with making and teaching a MOOC.
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title	MOOC Makers: Professors’ Experiences With Developing and Delivering MOOCs
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MOOC Makers: Professors’ Experiences With Developing and Delivering MOOCs

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