Collaborative MOOC Content Design and Automatic Assessment Based on ODALA Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nacera Hammid ◽  
Lynda Haddadi ◽  
Farida Bouarab-Dahmani

Since the fall of 2011, the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) phenomenon is still being qualified as the most attractive and discussed subject by educational communities and public. In the literature, there are many researches about this recent e-learning generation that vary as the goals vary from raising pedagogical issues to economics ones. Several case studies state that MOOCs are challenging the use of technologies to enhance learning; others think that MOOCs can induce to disruptive in education and educational institutions. In this paper, we propose an instructional design for a kind of MOOC platforms where mainly the use of disciplines specifications and automated evaluation of MOOC learners are possible to settle the source of these problems. Our proposition is based on ODALA (Ontology-Driven Auto-evaluation Learning Approach) principles and on the disciplines' knowledge capitalization using a meta-model represented as domain ontology for disciplines modeling inspired by this approach.

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Zsolt Námesztovszki ◽  
Dorottya Balázs P. ◽  
Cintia Kovács ◽  
Lenke Major ◽  
Dijana Karuović

Manapság egyre több szó esik az időtől és helytől független tanulásról, amely elektronikus eszközök segítségével valósul meg. Ezen eszközök szervezett és összefogott megjelenítését biztosítják a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) típusú kurzusok. Ezek a kurzusok egyre nagyobb népszerűségnek örvendenek az oktatók és a tanulók körében is, és egyre több ilyen struktúrájú képzés jelenik meg. Az utóbbi években magyar nyelvű képzések is egyre gyakrabban érhetők el, azonban ezek működése (az empirikus adatok tükrében) már kevésbé ismert. Ezt a kört bővíti ez a tanulmány, amely a tanulói aktivitás intenzitását vizsgálja a videómegtekintések, a fórumaktivitások és a tesztek kitöltésének ideje alapján három, saját készítésű MOOC felületén. --- Tracing learners' activity patterns in 3 MOOC trainings Nowadays, more and more researchers and teachers are talking about e-learning, which makes education independent of time and place. The MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) provides the organized and coordinated look of these e-learning tools. These courses are becoming more and more popular among instructors and students alike, and there are a number of these sorts of structured courses. In recent years there have also been a great number of courses available in Hungarian too, but their working process is less well-known (in light of empirical data). This study examines the intensity of the student activities during the video-material, the forum activities and the time of completion of the tests, on the basis of three self-made MOOCs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-252
Author(s):  
Samaa Haniya ◽  
Luc Paquette

Understanding learner participation is essential to any learning environment to enhance teaching and learning, especially in large scale digital spaces, such as massive open online courses. However, there is a lack of research to fully capture the dynamic nature of massive open online courses and the different ways learners participate in these emerging massive e-learning ecologies. To fill in the research gap, this paper attempted to investigate the relationship between how learners choose to participate in a massive open online course, their initial motivation for learning, and the barriers they faced throughout the course. This was achieved through a combination of data-driven clustering approaches—to identify patterns of learner participation—and qualitative analysis of survey data—to better understand the learners’ motivation and the barriers they faced during the course. Through this study we show how, within the context of a Coursera massive open online course offered by the University of Illinois, learners with varied patterns of participation (Advanced, Balanced, Early, Limited, and Delayed Participation) reported similar motivations and barriers, but described differences in how their participation was impacted by those factors. These findings are significant to gain insights about learners’ needs which in turn serve as the basis to innovate more adaptive and personalized learning experiences and thus advance learning in these large scale environments.


Author(s):  
Diana Nancy Martínez García

Introducción: El aprendizaje electrónico e-learning, incorporó la conectividad a través del Internet acercando el conocimiento y el desarrollo académico por medio de los espacios de aprendizaje virtuales. Del tradicional e-learning a la masificación de los cursos abiertos Massive Open Online Course, se ha revolucionado el mundo educativo en función de la oferta de formación académica abierta y de calidad.Objetivo: Evaluar las competencias digitales de los docentes de la Carrera de Enfermería de la Universidad Técnica de Ambato.Métodos: Se realizó un estudio observacional, descriptivo y retrospectivo con el objetivo de conocer las competencias digitales de los docentes de la Carrera de Enfermería. La población estuvo formada por 30 docentes, a los que se les aplicó un instrumento de evaluación para conocer las competencias digitales que poseían.Resultados: Los docentes estuvieron bien familiarizados con el uso de la Internet (n=19; 63%), y el uso de software educativos (n=8; 27%). El 37% de los docentes utilizó el Internet para el desarrollo de sus clases, el 33% lo utilizó a menudo, mientras que el 2,7% lo utilizó en determinadas ocasiones.Conclusiones: Las competencias digitales de los docentes estuvieron en un nivel medio de pericia, los docentes conocieron y manejaron las herramientas informáticas que integraron a su práctica docente, no obstante se evidenció la necesidad de acompañamiento por parte de personal especializado en el área de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. 


Author(s):  
Xiaobin Li

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the literature on massive open online course (MOOC) development in China, its accompanying practices, challenges, and opportunities. The chapter also offers recommendations derived from the literature on how to make MOOCs benefit more Chinese. To conduct this study, the author reviewed Chinese literature on MOOCs since 2012, when the first five articles on MOOCs appeared in Chinese journals, which introduced concepts and practices of Western MOOCs into China. The author also reviewed well-known English journals on online education and e-learning since 2013, when the first Chinese MOOCs appeared.


2019 ◽  
pp. 382-387
Author(s):  
Tatiana Semenova ◽  
Ksenia Vilkova

Massive open online course (MOOC) is a relatively new format of online learning; despite this, it is actively integrated into the educational process of universities. Using data from publications, regulatory documents of universities, official websites of educational institutions, as well as data from expert interviews, this paper summarizes the experience of Russian universities on MOOC integration into campus-based curricula. The main models of MOOC integration into the educational process were highlighted: (a) embedding the MOOC into the blended learning format, (b) replacing part of the offline courses of the academic program with MOOCs, (c) creating an online master’s program with MOOCs.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Danaa Ganbat ◽  
Uranchimeg Tudevdagva

This article reports short overview of massive open online courses for “robotic” topic. Extensive use of mobile devices opens up various opportunities for educational institutions to transfer contents to learners. Modern learners prefer to manage their learning by personal way. Many online courses are confirming this fact. Nowadays we can find unlimited number of contents on the internet. Almost all universities offer own online courses with various topics. In the last decade massive open online course (MOOC) became one of the opportunities to keep educated. The robotics is main focus of this issue, therefore we are trying to conduct small study on online educational contents with this topic. We selected five MOOCs in our study. Main criteria of selection were personal experience of author with these MOOCs. An evaluation of MOOCs is not an aim of the article. Through this article we tried to make visible opportunities to get education on robotics free by online with your personal learning management time.


Author(s):  
Ana M. Pessoa ◽  
Luis Coelho ◽  
Ruben Fernandes

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are gaining prominence in transversal teaching-learning strategies. However, there are many issues still debated, namely assessment, recognized largely as a cornerstone in Education. The large number of students involved requires a redefinition of strategies that often use approaches based on tasks or challenging projects. In these conditions and due to this approach, assessment is made through peer-reviewed assignments and quizzes online. The peer-reviewed assignments are often based upon sample answers or topics, which guide the student in the task of evaluating peers. This chapter analyzes the grading and evaluation in MOOCs, especially in science and engineering courses, within the context of education and grading methodologies and discusses possible perspectives to pursue grading quality in massive e-learning courses.


Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has been playing an important role in the latest e-learning initiative and has obtained a widespread popularity in many universities. However, the low course completion rates of students have become an outstanding issue that should not be neglected. Based on the Expectation-Confirmation Model (ECM), this study examines the effects of students’ perceived usefulness, confirmation and satisfaction on MOOC continuance intention. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to validate the proposed model and hypotheses. Participants were 368 undergraduate students enrolled in a MOOC platform. The study’s result revealed that confirmation has significant effects on students’ perceived usefulness and satisfaction. Perceived usefulness and satisfaction have significant effects on students’ continuance intention while perceived usefulness has no significant effects on students’ satisfaction. This study will help to outspread our understanding of what influence students to continue using MOOC.


Author(s):  
Frank Fuchs-Kittowski

This article presents the didactic concept and the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) e-learning solution for the course “Environment, computer science and society” in the environmental informatics degree course at the HTW Berlin, which was realised on the basis of the traditional third-level learning platform Moodle.


2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Chiou ◽  
Timothy K. Shih

E-learning is a progressive way of learning through online courses. Instructors pass information to learners via context and videos embedded in active webpages, so that learners intake knowledge of what they need. Now e-learning is not simply providing course materials, while the trend of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is recently applied widely, the concept of flipped classroom is well deployed everywhere. Courses are designed more practical, suitable, and problem-solving inclined. By this way, learners' learning effectiveness and learning motivation are triggered. In this research, the authors will develop an online learning platform and improve the existing methods of peer grouping and peer assessment, to promote the concept of MOOCs.


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