Commentary: Massive open online courses and the future of education

Physics Today ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 8-10
Author(s):  
H. Frederick Dylla
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Of Education

MOOCs Evolution and Perceptions of Library and Information Science Professionals

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-78
Author(s):  
Anna Kaushik
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Science Domain ◽  
Main Barrier

This chapter provides the genesis of the massive open online courses (MOOCs) concept and perceptions of library and information science professionals towards the evolution of MOOCs in libraries and the information science domain by using a survey. The results of this study revealed that a majority of library and information science professionals who participated in this survey were working in academic libraries and aware of the MOOCs concept from three years, by scholarly literature. The MOOCs concept was updated and useful in libraries and the information science domain, while a lack of MOOCs related specific to competencies and skills emerged as the main barrier. This survey also showed that the concept of MOOCs will continue to grow in the future. This chapter will be helpful to understand the concept of MOOCs and the insights of library and information science professionals in the MOOCs context.

Forecasting the impacts of the “future of work” on universities: a sociological perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Roger Pizarro Milian ◽  
Scott Davies
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Future ◽  
Institutional Forces

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyse the prospective impact of the future of work on universities. Design/methodology/approach Several brief case studies of heralded disruptors of higher education (HE) – including digital badges, for-profit universities and massive open online courses – are reviewed to illustrate inertial forces in the system. Findings The results indicate that several social forces will protect most universities from significant disruption, with the impetus for change being felt mostly in the periphery of the system. Originality/value The argument presented in this study serves as a corrective to claims that looming changes in the nature of work will radically disrupt universities. It calls for more nuanced theorizing about the interaction between technical and institutional forces in HE.

scholarly journals УПРОВАДЖЕННЯ МОДЕЛІ ПІДГОТОВКИ МАГІСТРІВ ДО ОСВІТНЬО-НАУКОВОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ В УМОВАХ МАСОВИХ ВІДКРИТИХ ДИСТАНЦІЙНИХ КУРСІВ

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Oleksandr M. Samoylenko ◽  
Ilona V. Batsurovs’ka ◽  
Oleksii O. Samoylenko ◽  
Nataliia A. Dotsenko
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Work ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Cognitive Content ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Coordinate Axis ◽  
The Future

The article presents the results of experimental work. It is suggested to state and analyze the results of model implementation for masters preparation to educational and scientific activity in the conditions of massive open online courses. There are indicated specialties of the future masters that took part in the experimental work, considered the list of adapted massive open online courses, in which the basis of the technologies of teaching is laid, offered the author's model. There are presented computational tables of the empirical value χ2 of the motivational, cognitive-content, reproductive and operative and productive and creative component at the beginning and at the end of the experiment in control and experimental groups, the graphic correlation on the coordinate axis of the critical and empirical values of the indicated components and the graphs of the results of the assessment of the readiness of masters educational and scientific activity in the conditions of massive open online courses at the beginning and at the end of the expedition rhythm in relative frequencies.

MOOCs Evolution and Perceptions of Library and Information Science Professionals

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kaushik
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Science Domain ◽  
Main Barrier

This chapter provides the genesis of the massive open online courses (MOOCs) concept and perceptions of library and information science professionals towards the evolution of MOOCs in libraries and the information science domain by using a survey. The results of this study revealed that a majority of library and information science professionals who participated in this survey were working in academic libraries and aware of the MOOCs concept from three years, by scholarly literature. The MOOCs concept was updated and useful in libraries and the information science domain, while a lack of MOOCs related specific to competencies and skills emerged as the main barrier. This survey also showed that the concept of MOOCs will continue to grow in the future. This chapter will be helpful to understand the concept of MOOCs and the insights of library and information science professionals in the MOOCs context.

scholarly journals Teachers’ Expectations and Perceptions of the Relevance of Professional Development MOOCs

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Jaana Kristiina Herranen ◽  
Maija Katariina Aksela ◽  
Maya Kaul ◽  
Saara Lehto
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Technology Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Online Professional Development ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
The Future ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

Online professional-development courses such as massive open online courses (MOOCs) could bring relevant content to a wider base of teachers who might not otherwise have access to professional development. However, research on the relevance of such online courses is scarce. The main aim of this study is to investigate the relevance (individual, societal, and vocational) of MOOCs (mostly participatory cMOOCs) from the viewpoint of teachers now and in the future. We examined teachers’ expectations and perceptions of 10 courses before (N = 364) and after (N = 177) the courses, using an online questionnaire developed on the basis of relevance theory. According to the results, the studied teachers had positive expectations for the courses in terms of their usefulness for their prospective teaching (especially vocational relevance). Teachers’ expectations related to the usefulness of the course for the future (individual and vocational relevance) were most strongly met. Effort put into the course was connected to, for example, how the course improved the teachers’ interest. The results of this study indicate that MOOCs can serve as relevant courses for teachers’ professional development in science, mathematics, and technology education.

Education and the Relation to the Outside: A Little Real Reality

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Savat ◽  
Greg Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Transformative Teaching ◽  
Control Society ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Radical Transformation

One of the more dominant themes around the use of Deleuze and Guattari's work, including in this special issue, is a focus on the radical transformation that educational institutions are undergoing, and which applies to administrator, student and educator alike. This is a transformation that finds its expression through teaching analytics, transformative teaching, massive open online courses (MOOCs) and updateable performance metrics alike. These techniques and practices, as an expression of control society, constitute the new sorts of machines that frame and inhabit our educational institutions. As Deleuze and Guattari's work posits, on some level these are precisely the machines that many people in their day-to-day work as educators, students and administrators assemble and maintain, that is, desire. The meta-model of schizoanalysis is ideally placed to analyse this profound shift that is occurring in society, felt closely in the so-called knowledge sector where a brave new world of continuous education and motivation is instituting itself.

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