Strategies for Assessment in Materials Science and Engineering MOOCs: Short-Answer Grading Best Practices

Developing meaningful educational assessments in massive open online courses can be a significant challenge for course developers. In this report, we discuss a variety of strategies that we have used in Materials Science and Engineering MOOC development in order to assure that we are giving our students meaningful and rigorous assessment...

How to make MOOCs better for specific target groups and developing countries?

Make MOOCs count for higher education: Approaches to awarding ECTS Credits for learning in open online courses

MOOCs provided by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have the potential to open up education to a wider audience. By implementing appropriate quality assurance measures, they could also provide a first creditable step into the formal higher education system. Exploring the potential of credentialization and recognition of MOOCs was a major...

Gamification in MOOCs - General Overview

It has been 10 years since the first MOOC was prepared by George Siemens and Stephen Downes on connectivism and connected knowledge at the University of Manitoba. From 25 participants only to hundreds of thousands of students in 2011, MOOCs became a hype in technology-enhanced learning context. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of MOOCs has become...

Open, online, flexible and technology-enhanced: understanding the educational business models of tomorrow

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...

The message is in the choice of medium: Building OER strategy that reflects institutional values

Designing Continuing Professional Development MOOCs to promote the adoption of OER and OEP

There is growing interest in the adoption of open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP) in a variety of contexts. Continuing professional development (CPD) among practitioners in the effective adoption of OER and OEP is critical in this scenario. Massive open online courses (MOOCs), which also grew as part of the open...

A comparison of self-paced and instructor-paced online courses: The interactive effects of course delivery mode and student characteristics

Open Education Global Conference 2018: OEGlobal2018

The Open Education Global Conference is where the world meets to discuss how opening education helps us achieve universal access, equity, innovation and opportunity in education. The OE Global conference is the most internationally diverse conference devoted exclusively to open education, attracting researchers, practitioners, policy makers,...