Inverse Blended Learning in der Weiterbildung für Erwachsenenbildner_innen: Eine MOOC-Fallstudie

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) sind in den letzten<br/>Jahren in aller Munde, wenn es darum geht, technologiegestütztes<br/>Lernen für große Zielgruppen zu verwirklichen.<br/>MOOCs bieten dabei kostenlose Bildung mit offenem Zugang<br/>an, sowohl für die breite Öffentlichkeit als auch für spezielle<br/>Zielgruppen (z.B. Weiterbildung). Die...

Orthography Training with IDeRBlog - an Open Educational Resources Practice

The article depicts the blogging platform IDeRBlog as an example of an Open Educational Resources Practice. The exercise databases of IDeRBlog are focussed in the context of orthography training. After briefly outlining Open Educational Resources an overview on how the exercises were researched and reviewed according to an established quality...

Transferring learning dashboards to new contexts: experiences from three case studies

This papers focuses on the use of learning dashboards in higher education to foster self-regulated learning and open education. Students in higher education have to evolve to independent and lifelong learners. Actionable feedback during learning that evokes critical self-reflection, helps to set learning goals, and strengthens self-regulation...

It's in your pocket: A MOOC about programming for kids and the role of OER in teaching and learning contexts

Programming is considered as an essential skill in the 21st century. Visual programming languages and age-appropriate development environments allow an easy entry into this field. Nevertheless, it is very challenging to bring those skills in a very short time frame to schools, to their teachers, and to school children themselves. Therefore, Graz...

Gamification in MOOCs: A Review of the State of the Art

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a type of online learning environment that has the potential to increase students' access to education. However, the low completion rates in MOOCs suggest that student engagement and progression in the courses are problematic. Following the increasing adoption of gamification in education, it is possible...

How Inverse Blended Learning can Turn Up Learning with MOOCs?

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been a hype in technology<br/>enhanced learning systems the last couple of years. The promises behind<br/>MOOCs stand on delivering free and open education to the public, as well as<br/>training a large criterion of students. However, MOOCs clashes severely with<br/>students dropout which by then forced...

How can Gamification Improve MOOC Student Engagement?

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) require students’ motivation either intrinsically or extrinsically to complete any of its courses. Even though MOOCs enjoy great popularity and bring many benefits to the educational community, some concerns arise with MOOC advancement. In fact, MOOCs are affected by low completion rate and face issues with...

Confidence in and beliefs about first-year engineering student success: Case study from KU Leuven, TU Delft, and TU Graz

This paper explores the confidence starting first-year engineering students have in being successful in the first study year and which study-related behaviour they believe to be important to this end. Additionally, this paper studies which feedback these students would like to receive and compares it with the experiences of second-year students...