This document provides an overview of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the Coursera platform. It discusses that Coursera was founded in 2012 by computer science professors from Stanford University to offer online courses from top institutions for free worldwide. It provides details on Coursera's mission to provide universal access to education, philosophy of online learning, the hundreds of courses offered across many fields, learner supports, use of technologies like Scala programming, quality assurance protocols, and management systems to develop and deliver online courses at scale.
OPEN EDUCATION BRIDGING THE GAP INEQUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY
(Case: E-Learning Strategy Indonesian Open Distance Education)
Devi Ayuni
Andy Mulyana
Ginta Ginting
UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA, INDONESIA
OPEN EDUCATION BRIDGING THE GAP INEQUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY
(Case: E-Learning Strategy Indonesian Open Distance Education)
Devi Ayuni
Andy Mulyana
Ginta Ginting
UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA, INDONESIA
Definition of E-learning
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Dr. Aries Cobb is an expert in the field of Distance Education, Distance Learning, Instructional Technology, Technology-Supported Cooperative Learning, e-Portfolio, e-Learning and Educational Technology. Dr. Aries Cobb, Faculty , Lecturer, & Researcher, is known for website design and e-Learning course development. Dr. Aries Cobb has published book chapters, a book and high-quality refereed & national journal article publications on the subject matter of e-Learning and Distance Education. Dr. Cobb is a faculty member, Lecturer and Instructor of Instructional Technology Distance Education (ITDE) in the Department of Curriculum and Foundations and Multicultural Engagement at Cleveland Sate University (CSU) and Notre Dame College of Ohio. Dr. Aries Cobb is a skilled Distance Education course development expert. Dr. Aries Cobb created the Slide Share "How Does Distance Learning Connect You To Different Cultures?"Dr. Aries Cobb, course designer and a researcher of Instructional Technology Distance Education (ITDE) and e-Learning for Educators and children. Dr. Aries Cobb, researcher, expert & scholar, is known for e-Learning, instructional technology & assistive technology, distance education course design.
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Definition of E-learning
Types of E-learning
Location
Purpose of E-learning
Advantages E-learning
Disadvantages of E -learning
Evaluation Methods in E -learning
CONCLUSION
Dr. Aries Cobb is an expert in the field of Distance Education, Distance Learning, Instructional Technology, Technology-Supported Cooperative Learning, e-Portfolio, e-Learning and Educational Technology. Dr. Aries Cobb, Faculty , Lecturer, & Researcher, is known for website design and e-Learning course development. Dr. Aries Cobb has published book chapters, a book and high-quality refereed & national journal article publications on the subject matter of e-Learning and Distance Education. Dr. Cobb is a faculty member, Lecturer and Instructor of Instructional Technology Distance Education (ITDE) in the Department of Curriculum and Foundations and Multicultural Engagement at Cleveland Sate University (CSU) and Notre Dame College of Ohio. Dr. Aries Cobb is a skilled Distance Education course development expert. Dr. Aries Cobb created the Slide Share "How Does Distance Learning Connect You To Different Cultures?"Dr. Aries Cobb, course designer and a researcher of Instructional Technology Distance Education (ITDE) and e-Learning for Educators and children. Dr. Aries Cobb, researcher, expert & scholar, is known for e-Learning, instructional technology & assistive technology, distance education course design.
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Barriers To E-Learning In Job Training--Government Employee Experiences In An...Lisa Ronald
Learning at work as an employee is inherently different from being a student in an academic setting and, as such, is beset with different challenges. As trends in the adoption of e-learning for the delivery of job training increase, new challenges related to distance learning with technology have also emerged. Recognition that continued learning in the workplace, now via technological methods, is required for maintaining proficiency and achieving career goals means that understanding the challenges unique to learning at work is paramount.
This qualitative study explored barriers to successful online job learning. Interviews with thirty federal government employees from the Forest Service and National Park Service enrolled in an online wilderness planning course revealed that attrition frameworks typically used to describe barriers to persistence in academia and distance education only partially describe hindering factors relevant to workplace learning. Although these hindering factors can generally be categorized as workplace; personality trait, and preference; course design/structure; or technology barriers, such categorization oversimplifies the true nature of employees’ struggles to learn on the job.
This study's findings reveal three overarching systemic problems: 1) illusion of convenience, 2) absence of deeper learning, and 3) lack of an organizational culture of learning. These systemic problems demonstrate that complex interactions between various barriers create a cyclic system often preventing attainment of student-controlled, student-centered learning, two benefits of self-paced study. Other barrier interactions can foster employment of superficial, rather than deep, learning strategies possibly leaving employees ill-prepared to negotiate the situations for which they are supposedly being trained. Cultural elements of the structure and organization of work suggest that workplace learning is devalued, under-recognized and often unsupported, making the challenges to adaptation in an increasingly technological era even more significant.
Barriers To E-Learning Job Training Presentation (no sound)Lisa Ronald
Learning at work as an employee is inherently different from being a student in an academic setting and, as such, is beset with different challenges. As trends in the adoption of e-learning for the delivery of job training increase, new challenges related to distance learning with technology have also emerged. Recognition that continued learning in the workplace, now via technological methods, is required for maintaining proficiency and achieving career goals means that understanding the challenges unique to learning at work is paramount.
This qualitative study explored barriers to successful online job learning. Interviews with thirty federal government employees from the Forest Service and National Park Service enrolled in an online wilderness planning course revealed that attrition frameworks typically used to describe barriers to persistence in academia and distance education only partially describe hindering factors relevant to workplace learning. Although these hindering factors can generally be categorized as workplace; personality trait, and preference; course design/structure; or technology barriers, such categorization oversimplifies the true nature of employees’ struggles to learn on the job.
This study's findings reveal three overarching systemic problems: 1) illusion of convenience, 2) absence of deeper learning, and 3) lack of an organizational culture of learning. These systemic problems demonstrate that complex interactions between various barriers create a cyclic system often preventing attainment of student-controlled, student-centered learning, two benefits of self-paced study. Other barrier interactions can foster employment of superficial, rather than deep, learning strategies possibly leaving employees ill-prepared to negotiate the situations for which they are supposedly being trained. Cultural elements of the structure and organization of work suggest that workplace learning is devalued, under-recognized and often unsupported, making the challenges to adaptation in an increasingly technological era even more significant.
This presentation introduce you to the concept of Distance Education.It includes the definition of distance education term ,a clarification of the difference between the two terms Distance Education and Distance Learning and finally it qives a quick overview of the history of Distance Education.
OER: Disruptive Innovative Solution to the Challenges of EducationRamesh C. Sharma
The education sector globally is facing a lot of challenges: the challenge of numbers, of relevance, of quality, of access, of costs and of speed. The solution to these multiple challenges probably lies in a number of disruptive innovative solutions. These include inculcating self-learning (building on meta-cognition), measuring learning, collaborative and co-operative learning, personalisation of learning and learning analytics. However, in addition to new systems or technologies, we need a fundamental change of perspective. A very promising technological and pedagogical model that has received a lot of attention during the last few years and adoption by Stanford, Harvard, Duke and almost 100 of the world's top ranking Universities to teach millions of learners is that of the MOOC.
The Open Educational Resources have become an important part of educational delivery. The establishment of OER University is a milestone in that direction. There are hundreds of OER repositories to allow teachers and students to use, and adopt content. Keeping in view the significance of OERs, we organized The OER MOOC with the purpose to enhance knowledge about OERs and to equip for effective use and adopt OERs in ones programs as well as to be able to create your own OERs and contribute to the pool of OER resources. We further wanted to explore the potential of MOOCs to create a model of simultaneously teaching on-site and off-site learners, using synchronous and a-synchronous teacher learner interactions to deliver high quality learning to large numbers, maybe evolve a model for a classroom of 10,000 learners. In this study, we shall elaborate on our methodology, outcomes and the impact factors The OER MOOC had on the learners.
2018-04-24 Presentation at OE Global 2018 in Delft on "How to make MOOCs better for specific target groups and developing countries?" by Christian M. Stracke, OUNL, Carlos Delgado Kloos (UC3M) et al.
Presentation on UCT MOOCs project to the University of Western Cape's School of Public Health workshop (Emerging models in Public Health education) , 20 May 2015
Integrating MOOCs in Traditional Higher Education- eMOOCs15Diana Andone
Presentation at the eMOOCs 2015 Conference in Mons, Belgium 18-20 May 2015
Integrating MOOCs in Traditional Higher Education, by Dr. Diana Andone
Dr. Andrei Ternauciuc, Vlad Mihaescu, Prof.dr. Radu Vasiu
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
This paper presents concepts and experiences on integrating MOOCS into traditional higher education in Romania. Three study cases on integrating MOOCs in courses at undergraduate and Master level present and discuss the opportunities in different pedagogical concepts as flipped classroom. These activities require the acquisition of new skills by students and teachers. Advantages and limitations on using this educational model from concepts to management and technology indicate the challenges that lay ahead of educators who are willing to include MOOCs in their everyday teaching activities.
What is MOOC?
The term “MOOC” (Massive Open Online Course) was coined by David Cormier in 2008 (Cormier & Siemens, 2010) to describe a twelve-week online course, Connectivism and Connected Knowledge, designed by George Siemens and Stephen Downes and offered at the University of Manitoba, Canada, in Fall semester 2008.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are courses provided over the Internet. They are provided free of charge to a large number of people and are accessed by the user logging into a website and signing up. MOOCs differ from traditional university studies, firstly by their open access. As a point of departure, participation merely requires an Internet connection. Secondly, MOOCs are characterized by scalability; the courses are organized so that they can easily be scaled in line with the number of participants.
LearnIT: Technology Trends in Education (5/14/13)Kristen T
See Wiki with resources:
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Slides used during talk given at Fordham University:
In a world where technology is changing faster than ever it's important not to just keep up with what's currently available, but to be thinking ahead. The New Media Consortium just released their 2013 Horizon Project Short List report that includes 12 coming technology trends in higher education. During the LearnIT, we discussed 6 of the top trends (additional slides to follow).
ICDE Policy Forum in partnership with UNESCO: Directions and challenges for g...icdeslides
The annual ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) meeting included the ICDE Policy Forum, co-organized with UNESCO. On the theme of "Directions and challenges for government and institutions when post-secondary education moves into the MOOC territory: public policies and institutional strategies in the digital learning age", the Policy Forum included organizations and key stakeholders including UNESCO, OECD, the European Commission, Open Courseware Consortium and International Association of Universities.
The New York Times said that 2012 was “the year of the MOOC”
EDUCAUSE said that they have “the potential to alter the relationship between learner and instructor and between academe and the wider community.”
Can a course where the participants and the course materials are distributed across the web and the courses are "open" and offered at no cost to a very large number of participants who do not receive institutional credit be a worthwhile venture for a college?
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Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
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The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
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This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
3. MOOCS
Massive Open Online Courses are offered over the
internet and are open to anyone all over the world for free.
In a few short years, MOOCs have become more popular
and well known to many people (moocs,2015)
There are many major MOOC providers such as edX,
Udacity, and Coursera (Pappano, 2012).
4. Coursera
Coursera is an education platform that partners with top
universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses
online for anyone to take (Coursera, 2015)
5. History
Coursera has been founded in 2012 by computer science
professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from
Stanford University. Penn hosts the Inaugural Coursera
Partners' Conference on April 5 and 6, 2013. As of October
2014, Coursera had reached 839 courses and 10 million
users. As of May, 2015, Coursera had more than 1000
courses from 119 institutions and 13 million users from 190
countries.
8. Courses
Hundreds of specialization courses are available in mnay
different fields.
These courses are related to:
Arts And Humanities… Social Sciences.
Business… Physical Science and Engineering.
Computer Science…. Data Science.
Life Science.. Math and Logic.
Personal Development.
9. Learner supports
Learner Support Forums Guidelines
students can write in this forum about any problem(technical
issues)
They can and interact with other students by using this
forum.
It has many steps to be followed:
Use a meaningful title for your thread
Be specific.
Stay on topic ..etc
10. Technologies
Most MOOCs are delivered through online videos. They require the
cooperation of many people, including videographers, instructional
designers, IT specialists and platform specialists.
Coursera uses Scala because it provides a type safe language with
powerful concurrency primitives on top of a mature technology platform.
A handful of Stanford students wrote the first lines of Coursera using
PHP. As the engineering team grew, we began searching for our future
technology platform.
After experimenting with many technology platforms including Python
and Go
Coursera has settled on Scala and the Play Framework because itsmeets
our needs best.
11. Quality Assurance
Coursera has introduced a protocol for quality assurance.
This protocol is designed to supplement review processes already in place at
the home institution, and to streamline the transition from design to deployment.
By aiming to limit issues of course design and technological risk, the protocol defines
the process and timeline for submitting course materials for review by Coursera, as
well as the timeline for uploading approved materials to the Coursera course
platform.
The protocol outlines five primary milestones in course design and development:
course description pages
course development agreements (two months prior to the course start date)
early uploading of course materials (one month prior to the course start date)
on-going class monitoring
post-course feedback
12. Management systems.
• Taxonomy of LMS
• Digital Teaching Platforms
• First, there are learning management systems as platforms for
course development..
• Second, there are self-contained online courses, that students
can take from start to finish without teacher interaction.
• The PLATO system is an example that dates back to the 1960s,
and one of the most interesting contemporary examples is the
Open Learning InitiativeProbability and Statistics course
from Carnegie Melon (spearheaded by Candice Thille, who is
now headed to Stanford. Always happy to have a voice for
openly licensed resources head to the Silicon Valley).
13. References
• Marzban, H., PhD., & Zamanian, M. (2014). Towards The
Incorpotation of Critical Pedagogy in Elt Materials
Development: A Survey On The Iranian Teachers And
University Professors’ Attitudes. Modern Journal of Language
Teaching Methods, 4(1), 114-132.
• Rashidi, N., & Safari, F. (2011). A model for EFL materials
development within the framework of critical pedagogy
(CP). English Language Teaching, 4(2), 250
259.doi:10.5539/elt.v4n2p250
• Safari, P., & Pourhashemi, M. R. (2012). Toward an
empowering pedagogy: Is there room for critical pedagogy in
educational system of iran? Theory and Practice in Language
Studies, 2(12), 2548-2555.doi: 10.4304/tpls.2.12.2548-2555.
