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Introduction

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) came into existence into the late 2010's. As of July 2012 one could distinguish several forms with respect to learning materials, learning design and certification. Initially, MOOCs were tied to connectivism and included some precise model of "2.0" education, but it seems that today MOOCs most often rather refer to a renaming of "open courseware" plus some participant interaction and light-weight certification.

Types of learning materials:

  • Free on-line homogenous courseware that has a much older tradition (e.g. wikiversity, MIT open courseware, etc.)
  • Assembly of various free on-line resources into a structure reading list
  • On-the fly construction of materials while the course is underway.

Types of learning design:

  • Read and/or watch videos, do quizes and exercices
  • Like above, but interactions between participants in forums and on other channels
  • Like above, but some light-weight tutoring (e.g. most interesting forum questions answered by a tutor)

Types of certification:

  • None
  • Informal certificates after completetion
  • Reuse of MOOC contents in formal education (e.g. the ones that are produced by major universities for their own students)

Links

Introductions

How to

Discussions

MOOC sites

Older stuff

See Open educational resources, which just focused on study material, whereas MOOCs include some light-weight tutoring plus a "pace".

MOOCs for educational technology

Bibliography

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