User perceptions and experiences of massive online open courses

Rolfe, Vivien; Kernohan, David

Abstract

Open education is transforming academia by empowering communities to share learning materials, and is opening up teaching practices beyond the classroom (1). In the last few years, massive online open courses (MOOCs) have emerged and become the focus of attention. These free courses are evolving in two distinct pedagogic forms: the connectivist (cMOOC) that has grown out of an informal networked approach to learning, and the structured, content-based MOOC delivered on large-scale platforms (xMOOC), often with significant amounts of commercial backing (2).

• Presentation Conference Type: Poster
• Conference Name: Open Educational Resources 2014 (OER14)
• Start Date: Apr 28, 2014
• End Date: Apr 29, 2014
• Publication Date: Apr 28, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 6, 2019
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: open education, MOOCs, massive online open learning, massive online open courses
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/818834
• Publisher URL: https://oer14.oerconf.org/archive/14/oer14/72/view/index.html
• Additional Information: Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : OER14