MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation

There is an urgent need to improve elementary and secondary school classroom practices across India and the scale of this challenge is argued to demand new approaches to teacher professional learning. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent one such approach and one that, in the context of thi...

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Autores principales:	Freda Wolfenden, Simon Cross, Fiona Henry
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Publicado:	Commonwealth of Learning 2017
Materias:	moocs teachers adaptation india capacity building Theory and practice of education LB5-3640
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ec706defbd6f41cc942335752ab27d772021-12-03T20:28:35ZMOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation2311-1550https://doaj.org/article/ec706defbd6f41cc942335752ab27d772017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/209https://doaj.org/toc/2311-1550There is an urgent need to improve elementary and secondary school classroom practices across India and the scale of this challenge is argued to demand new approaches to teacher professional learning. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent one such approach and one that, in the context of this study, is considered to provide a means by which to transcend traditional training processes and disrupt conventional pedagogic practices. This paper offers a critical review of a large-scale MOOC deployed in English, and then in Hindi, to support targeted sustainable capacity building within an education development initiative (TESS-India) across seven states in India. The study draws on multiple sources of participant data to identify and examine features, which stimulated a buzz around the MOOCs, leading to over 40,000 registrations and a completion rate of approximately 50% for each of the two MOOCs.Freda WolfendenSimon CrossFiona HenryCommonwealth of Learningarticlemoocsteachersadaptationindiacapacity buildingTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENJournal of Learning for Development, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 127-142 (2017)
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description	There is an urgent need to improve elementary and secondary school classroom practices across India and the scale of this challenge is argued to demand new approaches to teacher professional learning. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent one such approach and one that, in the context of this study, is considered to provide a means by which to transcend traditional training processes and disrupt conventional pedagogic practices. This paper offers a critical review of a large-scale MOOC deployed in English, and then in Hindi, to support targeted sustainable capacity building within an education development initiative (TESS-India) across seven states in India. The study draws on multiple sources of participant data to identify and examine features, which stimulated a buzz around the MOOCs, leading to over 40,000 registrations and a completion rate of approximately 50% for each of the two MOOCs.
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title	MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation
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MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation

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