ABOUT MOOC
WHAT ARE MOOC’S?
 Mooc is short for “Massive Open
Online Courses”.
These are classes taught online to
a large number of students by
teachers

Students watch short video
lectures and complete assignments
• That way professors can support a
class with hundreds of thousands
of participants.

BACKGROUND ABOUT MOOC
 First

mooc launched in 2008
 It was names “Connectism
and Connective Knowledge /
2008” (cck8)
 Created by educators
Stephen Downes and George
Siemens
 Uses

different plat forms
to engage learning like,
Facebook groups, Wiki
pages, blogs and other
form of social networks
Around that year 2,200 people signed up
for cck8
Positives

And

Negatives
Pros
Offer equal rights to
education
Enrollment to coarse of
choice, convenient to home
without spending a dime
Uses all sort social network.
Accessible


Because

Cons

of the large number
of student, feedback on
assessment is a struggle
Only disciplined and self
regulated learners can
manage to complete the
coarse
 Conti..

Teacher

can never interact
directly with a student.
 Only 7.7% learners finish the
coarse.
Interesting

Mooc’s

about Mooc!

are a good
alternatives to books.
They can be on your
own language
Accessible to anyone,
everywhere
What I like about Mooc
I

enroll to the coarse of my
choice without asp score
deciding for me
 They offer short coarses
 And it is morden technology,
relevant to nowaday
That was all!

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